Spring Break
Ex-rated relationships
As if breaking up isn't hard enough, post-relationship relations are the real ex-factor
By: Eric Edwards — KRT Campus
Issue date: 3/29/04 Section: Aggielife
I should know better.
Pam seems to have the whole thing figured out. If it weren't for my inquisitive nature, I might think I'm the first person she has ever dated.
And for many people that bit of self-deception is worth a mountain of contentment.
But other people's exes shouldn't annoy us so much. They should be viewed as worn-out videos that our significant others once liked to watch but are now completely bored with. Meanwhile, we are as shiny and golden and interesting as a brand-new Oscar-winning movie.
Few people seem to have that sort of healthy attitude about other people's exes. I've never had a girlfriend who didn't think my most recent ex was a hideous, perverted troll, lucky not to be institutionalized for her bad taste in clothing.
And although I talk a good game, there was never an ex-boyfriend out there whom I did not look upon as though he would be fortunate to lick my boot heels.
Our mothers might have raised us to say nothing if we can't find anything nice to say about someone, but when it comes to exes, the rule is: If you can't find anything profoundly nasty to say about an ex, you're just not trying hard enough.
Pam seems to have the whole thing figured out. If it weren't for my inquisitive nature, I might think I'm the first person she has ever dated.
And for many people that bit of self-deception is worth a mountain of contentment.
But other people's exes shouldn't annoy us so much. They should be viewed as worn-out videos that our significant others once liked to watch but are now completely bored with. Meanwhile, we are as shiny and golden and interesting as a brand-new Oscar-winning movie.
Few people seem to have that sort of healthy attitude about other people's exes. I've never had a girlfriend who didn't think my most recent ex was a hideous, perverted troll, lucky not to be institutionalized for her bad taste in clothing.
And although I talk a good game, there was never an ex-boyfriend out there whom I did not look upon as though he would be fortunate to lick my boot heels.
Our mothers might have raised us to say nothing if we can't find anything nice to say about someone, but when it comes to exes, the rule is: If you can't find anything profoundly nasty to say about an ex, you're just not trying hard enough.
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