i swear he cast a spell or sold his soul or something because it's physically impossible to look like that at forty. yes! yes to all of this. i still have to figure out his romantic history, but at the moment, i think he just has a string of short-lived relationships with long spaces of being single between. he's definitely not concerned about being in his mid-thirties and alone forever, not one bit. so i do like that, too, just this relationship that kind of...became one without effort, and then an abrupt end when she started to panic. i'm honestly good with something that's not terribly messy either—they can be a little confused, and he could've been a little hurt, but it's not like he's pining after the one that got away?