American Sniper - Boekje Pienter

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question or easy way of bringing something to light reveals
that he is 100 percent aware of my feelings. He doesn’t necessarily
enjoy talking about feelings, but he has a sense of when it
is appropriate or necessary to bring things out that I may have
been intent on keeping in.
I noticed it early on in our relationship. We would be talking
on the phone and he was very caring.
We are, in many ways, opposites. Still, we seemed to click.
One day on the phone he was asking what I thought made us
compatible. I decided to tell him some of the things that drew
me to him.
“I think you’re a really good guy,” I told him, “really nice.
And sensitive.”
“Sensitive!” He was shocked, and sounded offended.
“What do you mean”
“You don’t know what sensitive means”
“You mean like I go around crying at movies and stuff”
I laughed. I explained that I meant that he seemed to pick
up on how I was feeling, sometimes before I did. And he let me
express that emotion, and, importantly, gave me space.
I don’t think that’s the image most people have of SEALs,
but it was and is accurate, at least of this one.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
As our relationship got closer and closer, Taya and I started spending
more time with each other. Finally, we’d spend nights at each other’s
apartment, either in Long Beach or San Diego.