relationships

12.01.2025

S: What is your view of relationships?

A: Is there a view? What’s yours?

S: Just because you don’t speak, doesn’t mean you don’t think about things.

A: How do you know people do?

S: I won’t dignify that with a response. You want to know my view?

A: Not particularly.

S: Well, since you’re twisting my arm, here it is. The relationship is absurd.

A: Why do you say that?

S: If you genuinely care about someone and go after them, ask them out, they will not have you. If you show no interest, they are all over you.

A: Evidence?

S: I was at this place where I had to have minimal interaction with people on arrival. I gave the minimum. Then, instead of joining the thing, there was one that would not leave me alone. The more aloof I was, the more they were trying to talk to me.

A: Just that as proof?

S: That is after three years of trying to find someone in London. I was handsome then. I’m handsome now. It is the same man.

A: You had some things in that time.

S: Nothing that coalesced into a relationship.

A: Well you have someone now. Forget about the atrocious past. Strategy in the future? Play hard to get from now on?

S: I’m only myself. I don’t play any games. I don’t use a strategy. I have self respect. If they can’t value me, they’re not worth it anyway.