Well, of course there's always gonna be some improvement with practice. But- it's like any skill or talent! Sometimes it doesn't matter how much you practice, you're always gonna be bad on some level.

[He just gives a practiced little laugh at that. He knows damn well what a terrible marriage looks like - he spent his childhood watching one firsthand. It's one of the reasons he avoids the idea so much.]

[But like hell he'd admit it. Not to someone he doesn't know all that well.]

Maybe. But I still think it'd be awful.