"Exactly," Julian said, his eyes steady. "I want to be the person you run to, not the person you have to manage. I want your bad day at work to be something I support you through, but I don't want it to be my job to fix your office politics. And I don't want you to feel responsible for my laundry or my moods. We keep our problems our own, so that when we’re together, we can just... be."
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By keeping their "problems" separate, they preserved the "person." When they sat across from each other at dinner, they weren't looking at a roommate or a business partner in the corporation of Life. They were looking at a sovereign individual they still had a crush on. "Exactly," Julian said, his eyes steady