Yeah, and your Bones has one up on me in the X chromosome category, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't want you to be alone just because she can't be here with you.

[The snarky edge erodes into something a bit more bleakly compassionate as he looks at her slump, reading the fixed expression nearly as well on this female morph of a Kirk as he would on his own version.]

I'd say it gets better, but it's too damned late to lie. It doesn't. You just learn to deal with it and to keep busy enough that you've got other things to take up your brain space with.