“I’ve been where you are—I’ve been you in this situation—and I wish the other person stopped me.” My eyes never leaving his, I asked, “What?” “If I kiss you right now, you’ll soon find out that kissing isn’t enough to tune out the world. The next stop is sex, and you’ll discover, for a short time, how good it’ll make you feel. To someone who feels like their life is falling apart, that’s appealing. But it’s just fucking. There’s no intimacy to it. Just two bodies riding each other until they reach the finish line.”
