What I wanted is, and was, for you to come home when you came home, not smelling like - sex, which you do, a lot, and . I didn't think that it would be, so hard, given that humans only have one quadrant and, it's supposed to be about love, and faithfulness, and respect, and - and you don't do any of those things anymore.

[ he wants to just sink into nothing and disappear, his breath isn't coming easily, just short little ins and outs that are probably the starting signs of a panic attack and he hasn't had one of those in years, and he's blinking back tears looking anywhere but his face. Feeling small and pathetic is not new and feeling worthless in the face of Dave's success and indebted to him for everything is not new so neither feeling strikes him as particularly out of place or alarming. ] And I want you, to back the, fuck, off.