Sensitive or not, it was a fair question.

[He drops his arm and turns away, pacing irritably.]

But then it all turned into how everyone she's dated has broken up with her, if they've wanted to be with her at all, and how she's not good enough - fuck's sake, it's not about that. I told her over and over again it wasn't about that. So finally I just said she could leave if I wasn't enough for her without some stupid title attached to me, and she did.

[His smirk is a pale shadow of its usual self when he looks back over his shoulder.]

Big surprise, huh?