All of them had received the couch-spooning treatment. Six months into their relationship, she discovered that he was seeing half a dozen other women, one of whom he’d been stringing along for two years. He even accompanied her, unprompted, to the D.M.V.-an act roughly equivalent, in today’s gallantry currency, to Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea monster.Īs we learn from the podcast “Reply All,” which reported the tale, Suzanne was not the only woman on whom John had chosen to bestow his favor. He asked her to help him choose a couch and then spooned with her on all the floor models.
He sneaked Suzanne’s favorite snacks into her purse as a workday surprise and insisted early on that she keep a key to his apartment. More notably, he indulged in the kind of profligate displays of affection which signal a definite eagerness to commit. Suzanne, a young woman in San Francisco, met a man-call him John-on the dating site OKCupid.
Dating “often feels like the worst, most precarious form of contemporary labor: an unpaid internship,” Moira Weigel writes.
