"That'll come with time, and it'd help if you weren't real critical of him; that just cuts him down again." Tina said, after swallowing a rather large bite of pancakes.
"I can tell that much." Tina said. "And I've told him to defend himself; he doesn't take the advice. It's no that he's ingoring me, it's just that he keeps thinking he can't do it."
"He doesn't think he can. He'll slowly get to the point; if you havne't noticed, he's gotten more confident than since way back, when we were at Remy's."