he loves him even though he is small and insecure. She sees him, he is small and insecure. But she can’t tell him that she sees him, how small, how insecure he is and that she loves him regardless, because he doesn’t want her to see it. She hides her knowledge in order to protect him. And so she can’t say what she would like to have said to make things entirely clear and possibly easier:

‘I love you even though you are small and insecure, even though for some reason you feel offended.’

He can say it himself or he can write it: I am a fragile human being.

Yes, at times he will do so, he will write: I know I can be impossible, but . . . it says on the paper and it looks supreme, like an insight, as if it is something he has mastered.