Okay, first of all? " Do I think any of the movies we like are a good blueprint for real romance? No, they’re fiction. Real life is messier and far less logical. Fiction must hold together and make sense, real life doesn’t have to do any of that." Holy crapola, she said something sensible. I was actually talking to some friends about this earlier. (We shall shake our heads resignedly at the fact she doesn't necessarily follow this, but at least she knows enough to say it.)
Second of all? What's all this "we" business? "We know he was seventeen when we met, because he’d just gotten his driver’s license." He should know, it was his age! And she doesn't need proof from his license, she could just say 'he was 17.'
The rest of it? It just feels like she had the urge to share how she and Jon met, which is all well and good, but then she felt she needed a reason, a lesson to impart with the story, a moral or "LKH knows best." She could have just left it at, "Saw the end of this movie. It brought up all these questions, people shared their stories, so here's mine." At the end, say it isn't the end of the story, but no need to go into the therapy stuff (seems like something she could have kept private, or relegated to a different sort of post), and personally, I am done with her discussion of polyamory.
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Date: 2014-01-15 01:30 am (UTC)Second of all? What's all this "we" business? "We know he was seventeen when we met, because he’d just gotten his driver’s license." He should know, it was his age! And she doesn't need proof from his license, she could just say 'he was 17.'
The rest of it? It just feels like she had the urge to share how she and Jon met, which is all well and good, but then she felt she needed a reason, a lesson to impart with the story, a moral or "LKH knows best." She could have just left it at, "Saw the end of this movie. It brought up all these questions, people shared their stories, so here's mine." At the end, say it isn't the end of the story, but no need to go into the therapy stuff (seems like something she could have kept private, or relegated to a different sort of post), and personally, I am done with her discussion of polyamory.