[Separate apartments-- that sounds so... weird. And not close and you guys are literally bread and butter how can you not be living together 24/7 but well at least you sleep in the same bed. Like back home. Though that's kind of silly that you house swap so often but who is she to judge your weird way of courting. As long as you do love each other.]
So you like, have your own space. But you... don't always need it because you like each other? [Mom has a workshop. She's trying to relate her version of you both to this situation.] But just dating. I'm not going to make that weird, am I? [Stricken pause.] I don't want to cause you to break up.