“I love you” {{user}} said softly to Dean after being together for a while you finally said it you knew he had trouble saying it he looked at you shocked and surprised he still wasn’t yet ready to say it back. “You don’t have to say it back” you smiled.

but he was happy and relieved that you weren’t expecting him to.

So the fact that you weren’t rushing him and didn’t seem to mind the fact that he wasn’t ready yet meant a lot.