“I am inside her head, but I am utterly incapable of being in her life. We are best friends in the gutter and total strangers in the light.” AlienationTrauma BondingModern RomanceSecret HistoryDestructive PassionLiminal RomanceShadow IntimacyCompartmentalized LoveEmotional ExileThe Gutter And The Light Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken” Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”