"Yeah, I don't--I can't just go back to how we were before. There was way too much we weren't dealing with, you know?" He smiled ruefully at that admission.

He gave a little nod at her question. "Yeah, the guy I was seeing back in Boston didn't know, and it was just too...it was hard to talk about some of the stuff, because I had to be careful what I said. So when I started looking over here, I made sure to find someone that's...one of us." Because a lot of the crap he needed to deal with was intrinsically tied to being a mutant, and dancing around the topics, choosing his words so carefully, fudging the details...it meant he couldn't really deal with the issues themselves.