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Dear Breakup Girl,
I fell in love with a 3-year-old (not literally) and I thought he was my knight
in shining armor. I was seriously disillusioned the other day and now I'm not
sure how to feel. Help!
-- Sarah
Dear Sarah,
Standards, yes. Larger-than-life expectations, no. Listen, sistren, we have to
relate to boyfriends as bonuses in our lives, not as Bob Villas who are going
to spackle and caulk and make it look like everything's all pretty and
together. When we think, "Oh, if I can just have this boyfriend, then my
life will be complete, world suffering will cease, and Buffalo will win the
Super Bowl," then of course disillusionment strikes -- maybe even in the
wrong place and for the wrong reason. So chalk this one up to
"Whoops!" and start looking for someone whose personality type falls
somewhere between the age three and medieval.
Love,
Breakup Girl
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