Poor Clark, poor Lois, he thinks he knows exactly what her motivations for everything are, so doesn't give her much chance to speak and he's way off base; and Lois knows something is wrong, wants to fight for their relationship, but so far lets him talk her out of it, deflates her excitement and doesn't wait for her to explain exactly why she wants to go there. The problem is that they still are not talking very much at all about what they really are thinking and feeling, and talking in depth to catch up on a year of not communicating is not an easy thing, even when you're both equally motivated (which is rare at the same time).
Sometimes you can feel so heartbroken, blaming yourself for every little thing, but finally finding out that what you thought you did wrong wasn't, why your partner acted that way was for a very different reason; but to find out those things you had to dig and keep asking for more details, more and more of their thought processes and feelings and more to finally understand, finally find yourself in each other again. But in the struggle, hopefully new strength is found and more love than you thought possible.
Hope that makes some sense. Sorry to be so long.
Great writing!
