"Well, sex and blood an only get you so far," Emerson remarked with a shrug. "I'm not a vampire, so I obviously wouldn't know, but I can think of some similar parallels. Sometimes the train wrecks are the ones that are hardest to walk away from. You know there's damage, but you never see just how bad it is until you climb out and see it."
The Witch could sympathize somewhat. Perhaps not with the exact nature of Jack's former lover issue, but the sentiment was one he was all to familiar with.