Let's say that I'm a toy; a puppet with lovely wooden bones and long, silken strings. Let's say you're a puppeteer with extremely capable hands and no desire to speak for me, only to me. You play with me out of habit, and comfort. Because I am comfortable with you. However, your hands muck up my strings, tangling them terribly. You don't notice though, because my strings are carefully hidden from view and they leave you without a clue. Even with all the mess, you move me like no other and I'm addicted. Thus my strings are becoming ever more tangled but there's not a thing to do about it, besides lose you and that I could not bear. That would cut my strings entirely and I wouldn't be much of a puppet. Luckily, you've recently confessed you can't lose me either, so we're stuck, putting on these shows of missed love and hidden emotion. Oh, I miss you.