I think we delight in the arrangement. If we could be with each other day-to-day, we'd lose something. We maintain an illusion of no expectations or commitment - we don't spend much time talking about "us." It gives us freedom to share things with each other that are harder when you have an attachment to the outcome. If I had to describe the dynamic I'd say that it feels like we both expect to always know each other - whether true or not - but that we try not to control the nature of our relationship in any given moment. It's not always the same level of emotionally or physically intimate - it's just reliably there. Comfortable. He feels like a partner-in-crime that takes a few different forms depending on where we're at personally and circumstances. We've talked without missing a day for two years. There's been delightfully little drama considering the work connection.