He smiles slightly, maybe a little bit ironically. He wonders if that would've helped him. He's been living alone for the majority of the past seven years. And mostly he's been fine, but. Well, there's been times even he would admit it maybe could've gone better.

"You lived together initially cause of the sober companion thing, I assume?" he asks. Unless they're romantically involved (which it doesn't feel like, based on the way she talks about him), it seems unlikely she'd move in otherwise. Unless it was a gradual thing, where they just worked so much together it ended up that way.