Turniper
1d ago
It is difficult to overstate how different your love life is from mine. I am in almost every way the opposite of you. Partnered for ten years, soon to be married. Almost constitutionally incapable of big romantic gestures, inclined to focus on the smaller day to day things. Generally into women who are healthy, sane, and on the other side of the kids conversation.
But damn do I enjoy reading about it.
I wish you luck. You've had a hard run of it. But there's no rhyme nor reason to these things. Sometimes it works until it doesn't, or doesn't until it does. There's little more you can do than try and learn from your mistakes, and you're doing that. I hope you find all the happiness of stability while keeping hold of the passion. My dad likes to say the most important thing we can do in life is find the one person we're going to share it with. If you do that right, the rest all falls into place.
I am both pleased and regretful to say that while I'm only 10 years in, not 40, all my experience suggests he is probably correct about this. Hopefully this is the last of your excellent romantic catastrophe dissection essays.
Turniper
6d ago
Oh, no, if the publicly provided details are true the lady is obviously in the wrong, and were I inclined to chime in on their interpersonal disputes I'd be recommending she be less accommodating to someone obviously looking to push around their neighbors. The lady just straight keeps threatening to call the cops about completely legal street parking directly adjacent to their own property. She just doesn't want any cars on the street.
Turniper
6d ago
This is a reference to the particular dude who came in the fluffer in the famous Aella's B-Day sankey diagram. Yes, it is real. Her (Said fluffer's) twitter is Romy_Holland (I don't think this is doxing, she's quite open about the whole thing online, which is how I am aware of it). I know the above comment was a joke about future politicians in future orgies, but the specifics are kinda too wholesomely hilarious not to share.
Turniper
7d ago
Oh, that wasn't a politician, just some dude. He's married to the fluffer now, they just welcomed their first kid, and they're having issues with a crazy old lady in the house across from them being a nuisance about perfectly legal street parking. Twitter is a small, strange, world.
Turniper
9d ago
Yeah, as an American resident dual citizen, this is pretty much my reaction. I'm not exactly gonna be upset if the administration snaps back at them.
Turniper
11d ago
I got a publishing offer like two years ago from Podium, but wasn't interested in finishing the story so I didn't accept it. But the amount of unsolicited interest I've gotten over the last year is definitely down, seems like the market's a bit glutted and there's less interest in pushing new stuff out atm.
Oh, we're all mad, I was just lucky enough to meet someone whose neuroses are complimentary to my particular eccentricities. Whether your own romance works out or not, I'm sure it won't be because you didn't treat the endeavor with the gravity it deserves. And if fate does intervene, you are building all the skills and temperaments that will help when you do finally have the stability to date off intercontinental hard mode.
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