Building trust and a solid foundation can definitely be rocky. My husband did some of that early on after having been in a few bad relationships. He unconsciously tried to push me away as a test. His defense was telling me he’d leave. Until the last time when instead of mollycoddling him I turned around and screamed for him to go. I told him in no uncertain terms that I was sick and tired of him threatening to leave every time we disagreed, that I wasn’t going to live in fear of losing him, I’d rather just get it over with! Something about my response got it through his thick skull that I really did love him and from that point on he quit trying to prove I would hurt him. An odd way of figuring it out, eh?
Glad we worked it out and so glad that you guys did as well! 💕