Your self-esteem issues were not lost on Dean. In fact, he had grown so accustomed to the way you felt that he would drop compliments in every other sentence he spoke to you.

However, you and he both knew that wouldn’t always help. It would tide you over, sure, but those insecurities would come back full force sometimes, no matter what you did.

Which is why you found yourself in his arms, red-eyed and sniffly, while he whispered words of love and praise to you.