I remember…
… when I was separated but not yet divorced and it bothered you to be seen with me because of it.  I regret it being an embarrassment to you, but how you felt hurt me.

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning Sept 18, 1845
…that you should care at all for me has been a matter of unaffected wonder to me from the first hour until now – and I cannot help the pain I feel sometimes, in thinking that it would have been better for you if you never had known me…