I’m bumped into my roommate Mike last weekend on his way back from a run. “Oh…hey…you’re…here,” he said through gasps of air, “Good. I have a blog post idea.” (Implied inside that statement was a how are you?? Great to see you?? How’ve you been??) “The idea is that when you’re in a relationship you work together by default – even though you don’t work …

I’ve found that a very strange thing now happens when people ask me about my relationship with R. I have nothing to say. “It’s great,” I told my sister Dani over gchat. “We’re really good,” I said to Katie via text. “I’m good, he’s good, it’s… “Good?,” my friend Annie parroted back over brunch this past Saturday. “Right,” I said. “I feel so lame saying …

This time the back story is short but not particularly sweet: I heard a story through the grapevine about a guy who, upon finding out that his girlfriend cheated on him, essentially shrugged it off. I know very few details, so I’ll leave it at that. In reaction to hearing this story I said something like, “OMG That Is Ridiculous Why Would He Let Her …