But like everything else, love changed.
Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
Shyโ was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. โSnottyโ was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.