Re: "I won't always hold you close" - I think the 'won't' is meant to be modifying the 'always' there, rather than the 'close', and so it's more "I'll give you your own space sometimes" than "I'll never be close to you at all." People do need different degrees of closeness (and I tend towards the "Get out of my hair! I'm doing stuff!" end of that spectrum), but nobody's going to cope well in the long term with somebody who can't ever take a step back and do their own thing.

The peacocks are doing well! I thought I'd lost one, but it turned up.