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In the second paragraph the LW states that she will be leaving her home state for graduate school. Are the two men going with her or might one go with her? I mean if she is moving away from the whole mess pretty soon, doesn't that partially solve the problem of choosing?
As to the LW's last question about how three well-meaning people are so unhappy, I would hazard a guess it was because they were bored. I'm not saying that sarcastically. If sex is the number one motivator for making a mess of your life, boredom has to be a close second.
Some posters have speculated that the people in this letter are just spoiled trust fund, upper middle class kids who create their own little world of drama because they've never had to really work, etc., etc. Uh, no. I will not defend the character of the rich or upper middle class because when it gets right down to it, they DO have a tendency to make people want to smack them sometimes.
But I will state unequivically that scholarship kids in fancy colleges, kids who work their way through college, kids in community college and kids who move into an apartment right out of high school and get a job are as perfectly capable of making a twisted, tiring, eye-rolling mess of their personal lives as any trust fund grad student. I know this, because I've known or raised kids in all those categories. Funny, it almost makes me proud to proclaim that poorer kids can f**k up their lives just as exquisitely as trust fund kids.
Also, a request from the advertising director at Salon, or whoever decides what ads go where on the page. What's with "1 Rule to A Flat Stomach" ad. It's really distracting and not in a good way. I had to tape a piece of paper on my screen just so I could read some of the articles here. But if I never have a bigger problem for at least a couple of days, I would be thankful.
