Believe me, keep things up the way you are and I'll have plenty of reasons to keep saying it.

Stubborn as you are, you're just going to have to face facts that you're never going to get that reaction. Yeah, he's possessive and gets cranky over the idea of my past girlfriends or any potential future girlfriends, but it's because he thinks romance is stupid and pointless, and that I'll be... I don't know... ruined or something if I get in a relationship. He's made that abundantly clear. You're not going to get a booming declaration of his eternal, burning love for me because he hasn't got any. It's just the way he is.