James Sexton

But the idea that like,

This person should be your best friend, best conversation partner, best lover, best roommate, best co-parent, best travel companion.

Dude, really?

Like, that's amazing.

Like, you know, like, oh, you can cook.

Can you farm?

Well, those both have to do with food.

Okay.

Right.

But they're totally different skill sets.

And by the way, do you have to be everything in one person?

Like maybe, maybe we're great in like five or six of those metrics.

And like one or two, we're kind of a seven or a five.

Like it's not the end of the world.

Like it's really not the end of the world.

Like, but we have sold people through popular media and like representation, which again, like rom-coms are like an equivalent of pornography, right?

because it's like this idealized, stylized version of things and you don't have to see anybody clean up after, like it's just what it is.

But the truth is like, come on, watch Titanic.

If he didn't die in the end, Leonardo DiCaprio, sorry, it's a spoiler alert.

You think six months later, she'd have been like, oh yeah, keep painting those French girls.