What do you do when your girlfriend of nearly five years leaves you–you’re just not husband material–and you find yourself desperately alone, while virtually every friend around you is married/getting married/having kids? I assume you’d do what any red-blooded American boy would do…buy a one-way ticket on Royal Jordanian Airlines to Thailand, via Hong Kong.
Month: January 2016
Why Would You?
After being told I’m a “great friend” but don’t have it in me to be a good husband or father why would I still want to call my girlfriend, er, ex-girlfriend? Because it is too difficult for me to write those two little letters: e-x. We all know there will be challenges. We know every relationship…
I Am A Prick
4 years, 8 months, and——something. It’s way too soon to do all this math. For the past few years my girlfriend (sic) and I did all we could to get her to medical school. She’s now there. It was a torturous process for her, to say the least. She departed 9 days ago. And I…
How do I find a cure?
When the girlfriend moves to the Caribbean, my family is 782 miles away, and I invariably envy nearly everyone else’s job, what do I do? Through the struggle of physical therapy and rebuilding confidence that I will race fast again–and faster than ever–I long for tomorrow. But what will get me through such lonely turbulent…
Don't Let My Parents Read This 