Letters to the Editor
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As usual
I really enjoyed this little memoir, and I've enjoyed most of the letters in response. But why do there always have to be a few people here who insist on pissing on the rest of our cornflakes?
Some of us are indeed that unlucky in love without being broken in some small, profound way that we need to heal through therapy. Not everyone has the same opportunities to meet potential partners, or the social skills to successfully woo (or charisma to be wooed), or much time or energy to put into dating after we've had a long history of infrequent and unsatisfying matches.
That's my story, anyway. If some of you want to believe that I'm just too fucked up to commit to someone, that's fine--I'll just go on secretly believing that anyone who can fall in love quickly and commit without undue stress is probably shallow enough to do so with any random stranger plucked out of the phone book.