Why won’t he tell her? Because he knows her well enough by now to understand she would misinterpret his sincere feelings as either pity or even convenience considering he never showed signs of wanting to seriously be tied down by marriage before and now that he has too, a dying woman with only a year left to live appears before him. I can only imagine the chaos of emotions she’d feel knowing his situation and if she discovered he read her bucket list. Worse case scenario the sense of betrayal would make her quit her job and further distance herself from him by hiding out deep in the countryside or asking to be transferred overseas before he ever got the chance to explain and convince her of his true intentions.
Why won’t he tell her? Because he knows her well enough by now to understand she would misinterpret his sincere feelings as either pity or even convenience considering he never showed signs of wanting to seriously be tied down by marriage before and now that he has too, a dying woman with only a year left to live appears before him. I can only imagine the chaos of emotions she’d feel knowing his situation and if she discovered he read her bucket list. Worse case scenario the sense of betrayal would make her quit her job and further distance herself from him by hiding out deep in the countryside or asking to be transferred overseas before he ever got the chance to explain and convince her of his true intentions.