[ Honestly, when had he ever known a real woman?--No, that didn't sound right in his head. But people were just so duplicitous, and the problem with marriage was that the perfect person that you seemed to get so close to always seemed to change once they didn't have to hold your attention. It was worse in politics, with hidden agendas and false personas; nobody was real, and nobody felt even the slightest bit guilty for the fact. That was why affairs suited him, one night stands where he never had to see beneath the mask.

He could fool himself into believing, at least for a little while, anything he wanted to. ]

I don't think anyone's the long term commitment type, to tell the truth. It's too damn complicated.

[ The slightest smile. ]

And being on this ship is a lot like being married to a whole bunch of people you never got to meet before the march down the aisle, don't you think?