Over the past few months, I’ve had several friends say to me:

Your love life is so crazy and complicated and full of intrigue!

They say they want the latest update. Their eyes get big. They say it’s like I’m living in a soap opera, they can’t imagine; they love hearing about it, it’s nothing like their three (two one four seven)-year relationship, nothing like falling asleep together in front of the movie, ordering take-out, waiting for him to come home.