What? He can touch her just fine without getting excited. Well, too excited. Definitely nothing that would put his especially fragile heart at risk. Probably.

He pops the first button of her shirt open, hand sliding farther underneath the fabric.

"I don't know if you realize this but you were gone for almost a month. That's... a very long time, you know." And right after he just started having sex again, too. "So yes, really."