Sabine's reply implied that the situation with Scott (and his wife) was even more complicated than Will had originally thought. And though the story she told wasn't as typical as it could have been (considering the people involved and what they could do), the end result was a tale as old as time.
Some of Will's studies in forensics had included anthropology and human behavior, so hearing Sabine's story didn't make him think less of her in any way. Many studies he'd read had reported that human beings, biologically, weren't programmed for monogamy; the concept was wholly created as a social construct, either to foster familiar stability or support the concept of ownership. Of course Will hadn't had much experience with interpersonal relationships until he'd met Molly, and his connection with her had solidified one of the indisputable emotional components: jealousy. As open as a human being might be to having multiple partners for themselves, it was a much more difficult thing to see someone you loved finding a deep connection with someone else.
"For the record, I wouldn't have looked down on you if something had happened," he told Sabine. "Human emotion is tangled and unpredictable at the best of times, and there are many things that go through people's heads that are much worse than falling in love."
He took a moment then, considering the rest of Sabine's story, how wild her life had been compared to the relative calm of his own world. Of course he'd had his own traumas, but they sounded almost conventional compared to Sabine's.
"Shola, was that your lover at the time, or are those two separate people?" he queried, parsing the list of people involved. "Is that who your engagement was to?"
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Date: 2016-08-16 06:38 pm (UTC)Some of Will's studies in forensics had included anthropology and human behavior, so hearing Sabine's story didn't make him think less of her in any way. Many studies he'd read had reported that human beings, biologically, weren't programmed for monogamy; the concept was wholly created as a social construct, either to foster familiar stability or support the concept of ownership. Of course Will hadn't had much experience with interpersonal relationships until he'd met Molly, and his connection with her had solidified one of the indisputable emotional components: jealousy. As open as a human being might be to having multiple partners for themselves, it was a much more difficult thing to see someone you loved finding a deep connection with someone else.
"For the record, I wouldn't have looked down on you if something had happened," he told Sabine. "Human emotion is tangled and unpredictable at the best of times, and there are many things that go through people's heads that are much worse than falling in love."
He took a moment then, considering the rest of Sabine's story, how wild her life had been compared to the relative calm of his own world. Of course he'd had his own traumas, but they sounded almost conventional compared to Sabine's.
"Shola, was that your lover at the time, or are those two separate people?" he queried, parsing the list of people involved. "Is that who your engagement was to?"