Alexander: I think that you’re in love with his ways, and with his intellect. However, it is my belief that one is not truly in love until one has grown to appreciate the negative aspects and various neuroses of a lover as one does the positive aspects. Perhaps temporarily removing him would allow you to gain the perspective necessary to determine whether or not he is in fact “the one”, or whether your affections for him are simply a sublimation of your own insecurities.

Cecily: You’re right of course. But right now, my sublimated insecurities need stoking.