Ah... well, it isn't seemly for a priest. We're not forbidden from finding life partners, but... I find it hard to separate from physical need, and I...

[He pauses there, considering how to say it. Hiding in quiet places, listening to people being intimate in public, he...]

... I must always be a proper example of what people expect from a priest. So it's been... difficult to open up. And besides, I still struggle to understand people.

[yeah, he's not a good liar, but this blend of reality and drilled-in idealism at least sounds like something he himself believes.]