"Yeah."

"I can try to think around it? It's just, it's all about me, it's not something I can - work through out loud with another person, I'd wind up stuck - I'm sorry..."

"Which one."

"Which one what?"

"The spitting or the monogamy.  It seems - maybe really wrong to ask you to try and torture yourself for - romanticish stuff - and for the spitting it really just feels like you should get over it and it's cruel for you to not.  - Not that - I don't trust that feeling - I don't think you're being cruel.  Uh.  ...Yeah."

"Wow. Uh. I was imagining the monogamy one because I figure I have to do that anyway. Unless you are about to tell me that cool future me is engaged to be married next fall or whatever."

"I don't think anything like that came up, so probably he already did it or whatever."

"Yeah he probably did. And like you're - god I should shut up why can't I shut up. Could we maybe circle back to this later or something and in the meantime talk about... I don't know... what's a... noun... fish. Are you too vegetarian to eat fish."

"Yes??  It's meat."

"Well some people eat fish but not air-breathing meat."

"It's not a vegetable."

"Do you eat mushrooms?"

"And eggs and milk, sure."

"And like, salt. - I resubmit that we could sleep."

"Fine."

There's a timid knock on the door.

They can do the Awkward Guiding Shuffle to the door.

Once it's open:  "...I have been eavesdropping on you."

"What an enormous surprise, I definitely could not have guessed that you might do that if it had ever occurred to me to wonder."

"I overheard things which made me concerned for your wellbeings and did not become satisfied of your safeties over the course of what I heard more closely."

"Do you have important clarifying questions? We were just about coming to the conclusion that we should stop spinning our wheels and go take a nap."

"I heard.  ...It was not necessary to let you encounter evidence that I had done this."

Julien is going to start crying again, actually.

"- What - why are you doing that -"

"Nothing that's happened to me has not been extremely upsetting.  I don't know what you want me to say to that."