Break It Down: A man tries to calculate what love costs (1983) [audio]

(thisamericanlife.org)

17 points | by NaOH 3 days ago ago

8 comments

  • dauertewigkeit 2 days ago

    At first I thought it was a passport bro on vacation, but it turns out it was a love affair (cheating). Everything about this is disgusting and whoever pushes this shit as some kind of romance needs a kick in the butt.

    • re 2 days ago

      > it turns out it was a love affair (cheating)

      I don't know where you got this idea from, but it can't be from listening to this short story.

      • FrustratedMonky 2 days ago

        Maybe he is miss-understanding the word 'affair'.

        Today a lot of people use 'affair' as meaning cheating.

        But it used to just mean any activity, and a 'love affair' is just an event, or two people in love, with no cheating implied. Just the act of loving.

        Now I wonder if 'affair' started getting used in reference to cheating because of loveless marriages, so any 'love' affair must imply cheating?

        • re 2 days ago

          The word "affair" does not appear in the transcript of the episode; my only guess is that the commenter googled the name of the story looking for a summary and saw "love affair" in some of the results.

    • bboygravity 2 days ago

      Name 1 American romantic commedy movie that doesn't involve cheating.

      • IAmBroom a day ago

        Singing in the Rain

        You've Got Mail

        Sleepless in Seattle

        When Harry Met Sally...

        Bridget Jones's Diary

        Seriously, most of them. What is your problem?

      • evanjrowley 2 days ago

        Meet the Fockers (2004)

      • cafard 2 days ago

        You've Got Mail?