The Sofa of Reasonable Comfort

I understand that completely, and I think the tragedy is that in some ways their relationship has always been a tad dysfunctional where talking about how they really feel is concerned. They both swept it under the carpet and in the end that's what lead (amongst other things) to Doomsday and ultimately the bittersweet parting in Journey's End; their somewhat dysfunctional inability to take that final step.