Karkat is the one with the constant yelling? He seems to be annoyed at everything. [She smiles wryly]

I think it might be partly that we lump a lot of things together without giving them different names. Or at least I saw many people behaving in alarmingly variable ways but all under the rubric of romance. I confess I am not quite sure how it should be the same word for someone who spends a great deal of his time beating his partner bloody versus the person who takes great personal care of her husband and spends her time making sure they are both happy. Yet I have heard both of these situations called being lovers. I don't understand how that works.