Sebastian Junger
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Podcast Appearances
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.
I don't think he was just a dick.
He might have also been a dick.
But I think one of the things that was going on, because I've been in relationships that were pretty tough, is that you can't even have the breakup conversation because it goes full nuclear.
So you don't know what to do.
And then he met the right gal and they had a family and he's a great dad and blah, blah, blah.
So it's not like he was just a congenital asshole.
But that was his move in a split second.