Can’t Horse Around In This Relationship

(My girlfriend and I are at a fair. We approach a barn that holds horses.)

Girlfriend: “Do you like horses?”

Me: “Uh, sure, if you do.”

(We start to enter the barn.)

Me: “That came out weird. I don’t like horses even if you do, but we can totally look at them if you want.”

Girlfriend: “Actually, horses terrify me.”

(We promptly turned around and found something else to do. Once I had wrapped my head around what had happened, I let her know that I thought that was a very brave and selfless thing to do, even if I don’t understand why.)