The next morning is a different story

In fantasy there is usually a climax. Sometimes there are credits. There is rarely an alarm clock. Real relationships have breakfast. Terms about afterwards, the next morning and the day after appeared in 1,480 threads in the archive. The keyword match includes all kinds of contexts; it doesn't prove that any particular experience was successful or regretted. But it points toward a question worth asking before the exciting bit: what will we do if one of us wakes up feeling completely different? Will it be okay to say, "That was harder than I expected"? Could the other person listen without immediately asking whether it was all a mistake? The morning after deserves a plan of its own. Even if the plan is only coffee and time to talk.