Does it not bug you that you have to share?

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No. Well, not exactly. To me it would be the same as being in a relationship with someone who has a particulalry time-exhausting job or something like that.

The only thing that usually gets to me is that sometimes I don’t get to spend as much time with Ben as I like. I have the misfortune of being really misanthropic and unable/unwilling to meet people, but also quite a lonely person who is across the country from all of their good friends. So when he’s particularly absent, there’s not much for me to turn to.

This kind of time-sharing stuff, I sort out with Ben. Any other stuff that gets to me is something I work through on my own, because it isn’t really about him.