It not like he isn't trying to see it from her point of view, it's just out of the realm of what he can relate to. He can relate to the idea of not wanting to profoundly change who he is right now.

He supposes if there was any correlation of something about his life that he hates, but probably wouldn't want to be different, it would have been growing up on the Trader's Luck. Sure, that place rotted something fierce, but it made a survivor out of him. That's worth something, he supposes.

"I'm sorry you have to go though this, sweetheart." He says after milling those thoughts around in his head. "I really am."