"Just break ups in general. I'm not actually fucking anybody at the moment. But if your girlfriend starts nagging about how you're always gone or how you don't come by to bring her lunch..." Isaac shrugged. "This whole... thing. It doesn't really make it easy to get into a permanent sort of relationship." Most women just couldn't really understand that - and all the others wanted to fix him, repair the damage they couldn't even begin to understand.
Now that's getting too close to self pity, he told himself, shaking his head. He didn't want a permanent relationship. He'd had one, he'd lost it. That was that. You didn't come across that sort of thing more than once, anyway.