He'd hardly explained it to her and Lila just got it. That was not lost on Jess. They had a history sure, but had been out of touch for such a long time and she still managed to understand. It made him even a little bit more petulant, because the only person he couldn't seem to get on the same page with was his own wife.

"I'm tired of fighting, Lila," He sighed, feeling defeated. "It's all we do." It was hard to fight for it, when all they did was fight about it. This was not the life he'd envisioned and he didn't know what he thought was going to happen, when they had both made their goals in life clear, but it was much, much harder than he anticipated. So hard in fact, he honestly did not know what to do about it.

He gave her a pained look at the use of his old nickname. It carried a lot of weight for more reasons that she knew, but it had been hers first, so he couldn't say anything about it. "I don't know Lil," He shook his head a little bit, but didn't pull his hand away either.