Nureyev isn't wrong, this is an incredibly hard conversation for Juno to even consider. His face betrays plenty of anguish at this conversation, at all the ways he doesn't know how to answer that question, that assumption.

"I don't want you to suffer just because I'm being dumb." He's always being dumb, that's nothing new. But Nureyev doesn't deserve to have to deal with that, that's been a big chunk of Juno's motivation since the beginning.

"Do you like the person you're...with?" He should not have asked that, but Juno's the kind of person who can't help but pick at a scab.