Our Listener has been casually seeing our Speaker for a while, and tonight he tells her how he feels about her. To his surprise, she doesn’t react the way he’d hoped she would. She gets upset. She gets mad. She says some horrible things. But he knows it’s because there’s something about their relationship that […]

Our Speaker’s friend has thrown a ‘singles’ Valentine’s Day party, and invited our Speaker and our Listener as one of the few couples in attendance. The night has been long and it’s not exactly the ideal way to spend Valentine’s Day, but our Listener is being a good sport about it. But our Speaker isn’t […]

Our Listener and our Speaker met while they had both been recently dumped. They hooked up, and continued having casual sex, with the expectation that they were the ‘rebound’ people and it would only ever be sex. Tonight, our Speaker tells our Listener that she’s getting drinks with a new guy, and that sparks something […]

Our Speaker is staying with her college roommate while school is on break. Her roommate was called in to work unexpectedly, leaving our Speaker to fend for herself. She finds her roommate’s father, our Listener, watching TV, and joins him. They chat about how tough the semester was, how she’s looking forward to her final […]

Our Listener and our Speaker are on a blind date together, and it’s awkward. Not because they’re strangers, not because blind dates are usually awful, but because they already know each other. Intimately. When they were younger, they met at a sex club, hit it off, and had some great times together. One bad experience […]