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When Courtship Fails – article preview
I’m working on a piece about when courtship fails. Not just courtship, but life. What do you do when people look on you as a failure? When you are ostracized and categorized and written off and…and…?
I’ve got a lot of thoughts, some still in a rough draft form. Below are a few bits to spark the dialogue.
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Wouldn’t it be better, if need be, to date and reap a broken heart a few times, if in the end you find someone who is good and kind? Could this not possibly be better than always going with the first guy you’ve ever liked so your heart will be “pure”?
Why is pain bad, whether the pain of a broken bone or a broken heart? I fractured my pelvis in 2011 and the pain was excruciating. Even a year and a half later, there is an ache when I walk too much in one day. Years ago my heart broke, and the pain was excruciating. Even half a decade later, there is an ache when I least expect it. This is not bad.
