Here I had a whole speech ready about your prettiness, and now it's gone to waste. [ She giggles, just in case it's bad enough that he can't catch the joke. ]

I feel like that sometimes. My past is so awful and the way I talk about myself is so awful for people to hear that they feel like they have to defend me from myself, and it's exhausting. I can't just be myself because it's letting them down.

Is that sort of similar, or am I way off base?