Kate Langbroek

Yeah.

The circumstances might be whoever said, some writer.

Who was it that said every happy family resembles each other but every unhappy family is uniquely unhappy?

Yeah, yeah.

Who was that?

I don't know.

Someone clever.

But I do often think about that because there's just a patina of happiness that, you know, you might live in different circumstances or whatever but happy is happy.

But...

unhappiness has so many flavours and textures, each more gruesome than the last.

Yeah, you were like, I'm not doing that again.

Next, Sally rethinks what love really looks like thanks to the women who carried her through heartbreak.

I think that when a relationship is failing and it's one that you're really committed to,

you tend to try and put resources into it to the exclusion of other relationships.

Yeah.

So I think sometimes people pop out like a meerkat to a very bleak savannah.

Your significant ones.

Okay.

No, I'm just always, it seems, you know, maybe it's our times or maybe it's been ever thus really.

I don't know.