No, it wasn't a norm for either them with where they were from. Billy had to tap in deep to his childhood to remember how his mom would try to comfort him, though the memories were faint, barely wisps to hold onto.

"You're right, it doesn't. Pretty sure dating does. That we're willing to accept the good and the shitty." He keeps wiping those tears away, his thumbs acting like windshield wipers for his partner's face.