*yeppers*
Hops and skips cause you guys get it! Hence Ellery's huge advantage in grabbing onto a man who knew what love was, and could experience it over a long term - and his glorifying that quality in Ennis (perhaps a bit unrealistically with respect to his own view of Jack and Ennis). And in this case, Ellery learned that he had not been loved, not really, until Ennis.
Jeremy hasn't got a clue, and Nick hasn't got a clue - and all Nick knows is that he has taken some steps he never dared, now that he has met Jeremy, just as Jeremy took a step he had not yet taken with any man, because of Nick. Both of them are in terra incognita.