clearing the deck - the marriage status thread

guidomerkinsrules said

while undoubtedly true, it does remind me of what I wrote about being in grad school and having an open LDR
I felt that as long as I was honest with potential paramours then I was being responsible
but my actions had consequences that spread wider than the little safety net i'd built for myself

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When very, very young, I got in the middle of one of those "well, yes, I have a girlfriend back home but we've agreed I can date but I have to tell her". So he met me, told her, and then suddenly the high school girlfriend back home wasn't so cool about her boyfriend dating anymore. I wish I could say I nope'd on outta there cleanly but it was a good education on relationships.

Spoiler alert: He never ended up with her either, apparently, so I guess it was a good education on relationships for him, too.