"Cilantro is good in small quantities; it's an herb that must be wielded with care and respect." And that's that about that. Steve. Come on. He's not moving. He is not moving to lay down.
"Is there a conversation we need to have, or is it a conversation that we can just not have and instead have a different conversation where you bring up what I lost, I try not to spiral, say something extremely sharp and pointy, and try to get you to break that wall or whatever?"
Just as an example???
"I thought the touching thing was to bring you back down, y'know, get you grounded, like you pinning me. I get you're lonely. I haven't been...I haven't--people'd, like that, since." Since. "Closest I get is handshakes and the people I sit to work on my arm for hours on end. You're being patient as a damn saint around me, the least I can do is try to give you what you need, too. And I'm apparently fucking that up. I don't know what we're doing. What the hell are we doing?"
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"Is there a conversation we need to have, or is it a conversation that we can just not have and instead have a different conversation where you bring up what I lost, I try not to spiral, say something extremely sharp and pointy, and try to get you to break that wall or whatever?"
Just as an example???
"I thought the touching thing was to bring you back down, y'know, get you grounded, like you pinning me. I get you're lonely. I haven't been...I haven't--people'd, like that, since." Since. "Closest I get is handshakes and the people I sit to work on my arm for hours on end. You're being patient as a damn saint around me, the least I can do is try to give you what you need, too. And I'm apparently fucking that up. I don't know what we're doing. What the hell are we doing?"