" About Rish. You’re not making her, like, fall in love with you or anything, are you? Because you could be reassigned or something, and have to drop her. And I don’t want to be stuck in a flat full of weeping, angry women, with no male to take it out on but me. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)