Sebastian Junger

Or it's going to – the cops are getting – whatever.

So I'm like, all right, I'm going to flatline.

The only way to do this because you're making me really angry right now is to flatline and feel nothing.

I'm going to do us a favor by doing that.

I'll be super rational and calm and blah, blah, blah.

But I didn't realize like that's completely inflammatory also in a different way.

So there really isn't a good choice until that person figures out how to emotionally regulate themselves.

I knew a guy who was – I won't name him.

His older brother – they're both sort of pretty well-known writers and his older brother was in a bad relationship of that sort.

And they were walking through – I think it was Paris.

They were visiting Paris and all their stuff was at the hotel.

This is before cell phones.

This is in like the early 90s, late 80s, something like that.

And they're walking through Paris and they stopped to look – she stopped to look at some clothing in a shop front, the window, through the window.

And it took him some steps to realize that she had stopped and he had kept going.

And he looked at her and he looked down the street.

He was like, this is my chance.

And he just started sprinting.

And he sprinted all the way to the hotel, paid the bill, left 500 bucks on the bed, threw his stuff in his suitcase, out of there, straight to the airport.

And that was the last time they ever saw each other.