He suffered how two family deaths 3 weeks into out relationship and he also has a very strained relationship with his mother who left him when he was 8 to move to another country and start a new family with out him …. he tends to be the one his family  reply on his career driven, successful and financially stable for someone of 30 but yet his very I feel emotionally unbalance (his a cancer) but where the relationship is new I only saw snippets as if he was trying to protect / conceal me seeing this side to him as his a very proud person ..