"It meant you weren't listening to me," Meredith snaps. It just irritates her more, how much that makes her sound like she's being a petulant child, but that matters, too. "It meant that you said I was only with you because I can't survive without someone. Not because I love you. Not because I want to be here, not because I want to be with you, because I need you to get by and I'm too scared to live on my own. And if that's what you believe, then there was no reason in wearing it, was there?"