"Well... it can only get easier from here. Right?" No, he wasn't sure of that, but he wanted to believe it, and he wanted her to believe it, too. Maybe if they believed it, hard enough... well, he knew all about how believing something didn't make it true. But this was different. This wasn't the war. This was the life he wanted back, and he wanted it to be as different from the war as anything could be. "I don't want it to be hard for you like that again. Once in a lifetime is enough - more than enough, I'm sure."