Perhaps I would have an easier time accepting you as you are now if I truly believed you were happy as such. However, I do not believe that is true and so I simply try to appeal to that side of you. The part of you that is not as prickly and hateful. If this has offended you than I apologize.

[She meets his eyes directly, jaw set, and eyes blazing.] Yet I must ask once again that you do not make up conclusion about me or my actions. If I merely saw you as an accomplishment I would have long ago set my sights on someone far more reasonable. Perhaps you simply don't know what it's like to have someone care.