politics

politician, statesman / a natural political leader

skill

able, capable

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

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

a house / one's own home / a home, household / a family

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear