[It helps that it's not the same kind of loss as Emma-May. They were together for years. He thought it was going to be forever. This was something a lot newer, a lot more uncertain, a lot less defined, and that makes it easier to move forward from. He isn't lovesick the same way he still is for his ex-wife. He's just... you know... thinking about it a lot. For reasons.]
I don't know if that would be wise. Then I would just keep checking it.
[Still. He knows himself. It would turn into a thing. He'd have to check it five times over every day. He does not have the knowledge or words to say 'that would set my OCD off something fierce' but instinctually he knows that it's true.]
Besides I don't think I want you knowing who he is.
cw: discussion of mental illness
I don't know if that would be wise. Then I would just keep checking it.
[Still. He knows himself. It would turn into a thing. He'd have to check it five times over every day. He does not have the knowledge or words to say 'that would set my OCD off something fierce' but instinctually he knows that it's true.]
Besides I don't think I want you knowing who he is.