"I love you." It hurt to hear her say that, because as she said it, I knew it to be true for her. She accepted me as a partner and the Compulsion between us only made things easier, with more clarity, and she embraced the love and the benefits from it all. But I couldn't. I would analyze this and pick it apart and dissect every nuance to try and understand it. Why it happened, why it works, why me, why it fell out of fashion, how it can be stopped.