[.....

It's not that he doesn't get the meaning. He does, but (he doesn't deserve it) he's not the only one she should be going to in a pinch.]

I'm lecturing you because I don't think you'd go to anyone second. And I want you to be okay. [And I'm not always the man to go to to make that happen. Something in him deflates, but he remembers to keep his head up.] You need more people around than me to be okay.

Damn troublesome woman...

[...the last part is muttered, and unwritten, though it might not matter much.]