SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) here, so I can only offer that perspective. Although I have experienced some social anxiety in the past, which made it difficult/ impossible for me to talk in certain situations, so I can somewhat relate to a limited extent. Not knowing your SO, it's difficult to say what would help. Maybe tell him you love everything about him. Tell him how lucky to have him and you're there for him no matter what. I don't think telling him that you haven't noticed his stutter is helpful. (not trying to knock you at all, you had good intentions). But, that diminishes his experience. \*\*\*IMPORTANT: Also, he may be working really hard, using strategies to be fluent around you and that's why you haven't noticed it. He might be fearful that you will judge him or leave him if he lets go and lets the stutter just happen. \*\*Edit to Add: If you embrace his stutter, it will be easier for him to embrace it too! I think it's more helpful to talk about how stuttering is part of him and has made him the person who he is, the person whom you love. But your SO is going to need a lot of time and continuous effort to really accept and embrace his stutter. Seeking out his local chapter of the national stuttering association may help. Recently we had Kenny Kroll, chairman of the National Stuttering Association out to talk to us. He started out by saying, "My name is Kenny Kroll and I'm a Person Who Stutters. I will have some blocks, and I want you to know that I'm okay with it, and I want you to be okay with it too. But, please, don't finish my sentences for me, I'm a grown man!" If I could talk to your SO, I would recommend that he try to own it! Perhaps in his introduction, he could say something similar to what Mr. Kroll said. It's a group of physicians so, they should probably have some level of compassion. They likely came into that career because they wanted to help people. This is an opportunity to share his experience and teach those physicians a little about what it's like to have a condition (shall we say) that the person has no control over. Your SO shouldn't be ashamed of something he has no control over. That would be like being ashamed of yourself for being too short or too tall or being tone deaf. Mr. Kroll's advice to us was to be empathetic to people who stutter, not sympathetic (don't feel bad for them). Mr. Kroll said that without his stutter, he would not be the empathetic, caring, humble person who he is. Why you should embrace your stutter | Juan V. Lopez | TEDxUniversityofNevada [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J5RUvs2rZA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J5RUvs2rZA) NSA Message to Speech Language Pathologists [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnzcpPmuM44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnzcpPmuM44)