Reid, despite his shyness is a very strongly independent person. He may not have an Alpha-Male personality but he has very much raised himself and been the caretaker for his own mother since he was a kid. Thanks to that, he pretty much is the type of person to keep control over a lot of aspects of his own life, especially his emotional control. He's used to finding solutions to his problems on his own, and probably just likes to avoid asking for help, simply because he's used to not asking for help. We've seen how he clearly feels odd telling Morgan about his nightmares, and asking for help. He is definitely going to carry that into any serious relationship he enters, be it a homosexual or a heterosexual one. He'll give up control, but only to a certain limit, and for certain aspects he'd probably refuse to relinquish any sort of control whatsoever.
As for his awkwardness and shyness, he is shown to get over that once he knows where he stands. Whenever he's introduced to the law enforcement the team is working with in the case he's does the whole awkward hand-wave thing, but once the team has settled in he pretty much asserts himself.
It may be because of Reid's past. Reid fits the stereotypical Woobie, and any woobie character always gets a little more bastardised than the rest.
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2010 07:30 am (UTC)Reid, despite his shyness is a very strongly independent person. He may not have an Alpha-Male personality but he has very much raised himself and been the caretaker for his own mother since he was a kid. Thanks to that, he pretty much is the type of person to keep control over a lot of aspects of his own life, especially his emotional control. He's used to finding solutions to his problems on his own, and probably just likes to avoid asking for help, simply because he's used to not asking for help. We've seen how he clearly feels odd telling Morgan about his nightmares, and asking for help. He is definitely going to carry that into any serious relationship he enters, be it a homosexual or a heterosexual one. He'll give up control, but only to a certain limit, and for certain aspects he'd probably refuse to relinquish any sort of control whatsoever.
As for his awkwardness and shyness, he is shown to get over that once he knows where he stands. Whenever he's introduced to the law enforcement the team is working with in the case he's does the whole awkward hand-wave thing, but once the team has settled in he pretty much asserts himself.
It may be because of Reid's past. Reid fits the stereotypical Woobie, and any woobie character always gets a little more bastardised than the rest.