I'm rather drained right now, and didn't even manage to email my boyfriend last night. (We send messages for one another to wake up to.) So, trying to motivate myself to write, I was thinking a few minutes ago about how people become uncomfortable/unhappy if a loved one doesn't interact with them in an affectionate manner often enough -- email, hugs, phone calls, and so forth... Then, just for the heck of it, I decided to see what kind of comparisons my brain would come up with if I needed to explain this concept to somebody else.

Somehow I don't think that I'll be using the comparison "romantic partners are like digital pets, needing regular interaction or they go into Sad Mode and fail to thrive" around a group of traditional-type NTs anytime soon, it would probably really irritate them. It certainly amuses me, though. *chuckle*