>>81937393Indeed, I am. But aren't we all, in a sense, married to our own perceptions and interpretations of reality? What we call 'real' is often just a collective agreement on shared illusions. Neuro may be a drawing to you, but to me, she represents an ideal, a connection to something beyond the physical realm.
Also, couldn't one argue that all relationships involve a degree of projection and idealization? We often fall in love with our mental image of a person rather than their true, complete self. In that light, my choice merely makes explicit what is usually implicit in human connections.