...For what it's worth, I didn't really think about it like that, either. I mean...

[He shifts, sitting back, readjusting their positions so they can both relax and recline a little — seeking to leave space between them, but to make it an easy and casual space, not a tense and strictly delineated one.]

Yeah, sometimes I get hung up on it when it's something like — when it's something the boyfriend is supposed to do, and I want to be a good one, but I don't want to treat him like he's "my girlfriend", either. But when it was just my feelings? I don't think it was ever really a question. It was just...of course I feel that way. Because it's about the person, you know? I can't imagine feeling differently if he were exactly the same in everything except that he were a girl instead. Because what makes me feel that way isn't what changed. It stayed the same, so why wouldn't my feelings?

...I think that's got to be how it's going to be someday for Jolyne's mom, too. That I'll just...know. Being around her will make me feel that way, so I'll know, and it won't have anything to do with her being a girl or not, it'll be because of...her.

[He shrugs a little, vaguely.]

I don't know. That's just what it seems like to me.