Lovely analysis as usual Swasthi!!
Ahem has made such greta strides in his relationship with Gopi recently. He talks to her as an equal and strives to understand her. With today's conversation it was made clear that he knows his wife well and understands her wants as well as her motives. He's taken the role of saathiya very weriously and realises that it his job to ease the way for his wife and slay her dragons, metaphorically speaking.