We are -and maybe this is no conventional arrangement, but it is still "It isn't," he said. "It is. What is a husband, but the man who offers you support when all the world turns you away?" Was that what he was to her? He couldn't look at her now, or...
You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.