Thank you all. I think I am just about ready to broach this with him now. I am grateful to have received some varied points of view, but a couple of common themes run through them.

I will try to help us build our trust and an open communication, just as I will continue to try to do what he wants of me. If I can show myself trusting, trustworthy and open, then his own uncertainty and lack of confidence should start to diminish, I think.

Once again, thank you all.