Fantastic writing, despite the context you really took me by surprise with the uptime analogy.

Is a comparison with machines the best analogy to deal woth human relationships?

Thanks! It stemmed from a thought about how “always” is not 100.0% but more like 99% in human being things, and trying to convey that people operate at varying levels of ‘always’, which bridged sideways to six sigma monogamy. It’s going to be a fun analogy to work with for sure :)