boyfriend: i'm going to claim "scritchscratchentastic" as my 2nd cat name
me: that doesn't sound right, the assonance and consonance are off
boyfriend: oh, it was just a joke
me: no, really though, let's look at the list of 2nd cat names from old possum's book [lists all the cats]
boyfriend: i-i can think of a better one
me: now if you consider how nonsense words gesture at meaning based off the sounds and connotations of existing words,
boyfriend: backing away slowly
Sometimes I think abt how people in shit relationships will insist to me that I'm only getting a biased perspective on how shit it is because they only go to me for comfort about the bad stuff and don't tell me about the good stuff
And I'm like. Why are you not telling me about the good stuff. What is going on. Why, if you trust me enough to vent to me, do you not gush to me.
Like, do these people not know how much loving partners cannot shut the fuck up about their partners?? We simply have no choice but to simp