confirmation

confirm, make sure, check, verify

fact; truth; reality / (as a) a matter of fact, actually, the fact (of the matter)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

そのくせ: nonetheless, and yet

habit; tendency / unusual trait; peculiarity

(positive meaning) to become a bad habit; to become something one is used to / (informal, positive meaning) to become an addiction

and yet; though; when; despite being; in spite of being