Gus shook his head, frowning deeply at that. "How does it make you stupid? Saying that is what's stupid, Shawn. The way this place works doesn't make you stupid. People get caught up in their feelings, they don't think . ." He sure had enough experience there.
"You can't be accountable for what this place has done with him. You don't control it and whether you 'should have known' or not, it didn't present itself as an issue because that's not what relationships are about. They aren't about freaking out if the other person is going to go, it's figuring out to do while you're both there. If you're all worked up or what you should have known or whatever, you're unnecessarily keeping yourself from happiness."