"Are you saying you don't trust your burly husband not to turn on you one day?" he asks with a grin, unable to help himself even though he knows Reid isn't saying any such thing. Whatever the case Reid is working on, it's clear there's some element of what people think of as their safe spaces involved. Someone from the home, someone close to the victims. Philip himself trusts so few people he's never been particularly worried about being hurt in such a manner, especially since he can take care of himself physically.
Philip doesn't love people. There are a few here and there he cares about in his way, Coop and Neil and Sally, even Reid in a strange way, but he would never describe what he feels for any of them as love. They exist within a different sort of circle for him, people who have proven themselves more interesting than others, and he'd even go so far as saying he would protect them, but he knows that isn't love. He's never been particularly distraught that it's not something he experiences.
It puts him at less risk, certainly. Vera is evidence enough of that and what Reid is telling him now only cements that opinion.
"That does change things a bit, though, doesn't it?" he asks, even though he isn't expecting an answer. Reid has already said as much and Philip is turning it over in his head, wondering at what might possess a person to do such a thing to someone they care for in the manner in which he assumes most people manage to feel. Even without his ability to love people in a normal way, he wouldn't hurt the few he's come to care for. "That information would make a fair few people suspicious, I imagine."
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Philip doesn't love people. There are a few here and there he cares about in his way, Coop and Neil and Sally, even Reid in a strange way, but he would never describe what he feels for any of them as love. They exist within a different sort of circle for him, people who have proven themselves more interesting than others, and he'd even go so far as saying he would protect them, but he knows that isn't love. He's never been particularly distraught that it's not something he experiences.
It puts him at less risk, certainly. Vera is evidence enough of that and what Reid is telling him now only cements that opinion.
"That does change things a bit, though, doesn't it?" he asks, even though he isn't expecting an answer. Reid has already said as much and Philip is turning it over in his head, wondering at what might possess a person to do such a thing to someone they care for in the manner in which he assumes most people manage to feel. Even without his ability to love people in a normal way, he wouldn't hurt the few he's come to care for. "That information would make a fair few people suspicious, I imagine."