How Living Apart Together Is Changing Long-Term Relationships

I think maybe we’re all so afraid to be alone we enter these half-hearted situations to avoid looking at ourselves for as long as possible. Finding it too difficult to love ourselves enough not to need something shallow to fill the space.

I had my reasons, of course. As I say, she is crazy. I am, too, but in a very different way. The immense effort it took for me to spend a whole day with her and ensure that it was “perfect”—that I did nothing to offend, upset, or bother her—proved to me that we just didn’t work. And I thought: When a relationship does not work, each party has the

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