one of us is gonna be running, follow, into the great unknown

Things I've learnt from being Mutually in Weird with a Significant Another.

Don't give compliments

They're a bit like mascara because you have to construct them, making them smudgable and frail and as crushable as smarties under a determined heel. If there's a moment that's the love child of magic and wonder, and you want to say something meaningful to fill the soft silence with, start a sentence with "you make me feel..." and finish it without thinking. It's sincere and frightening and honest and will get you a Look more often than you'd like.