Essay: Casual Relationships: Yay or Neigh?

“Love isn’t just a feeling, sometimes love is shaving your balls”

• American Pie (The Wedding)

Shiver me, Tinders, who does love a good casual liaison these days? Somebody to watch tv with, drink low-fat lattes? Do the no-pants dance, and then say see-ya-later? Sounds like a hell of a deal! Until it isn’t…

Every casual relationship that I went into with the intention of not giving a feck, with the attitude of this is just going to be a bit of fun for a short bit of time, and then I'll sling my hook, turned out to be precisely that, except when the end came, I was disappointed.

As always happens when two people become close, contrary to the agreement, you start to wonder, what if? What if this story had another chapter? This imaginative streak is an indisputable human response to possibility, in the same way that when you get a tooth out, your tongue pokes into the hole for weeks on end, annoyingly trying to map out the new and strange space. We can't help but explore what we shouldn’t. 

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