He leans against the back of the break room sofa. "Sure. Mike, I've been getting broken off with for thirty years, people never say it's because of me. Half they time they don't even think so. They tell me, 'We can work through this, I don't mind that you're sick, I'll be able to deal with it', and they're not lying to me, it's just that it's really goddamn hard to deal with. I know that. But really. I have a kid, I'm poly, I work nights, I'm sick--there's all kinds of reasons it doesn't work out with people, it's not like I've never been turned down, I'm not fragile. And you're the same kind of person Anna is. I never really figured you weren't going to do the same thing. You don't have to make excuses about it."