It is a truth universally acknowledged, that sometimes love sucks.

 

Some experiences are indisputably modern, from the Frostian question of whether to swipe left or right, to the aftermath of pasting a screenshot of a conversation to the person you were having the conversation with. Never living that down. 

 

Others are timeless, like being played, dumped, ghosted, obsessed, torn or finding yourself inexplicably involved with someone you actually can't stand, and these experiences have been used as fertilizer in storytelling for centuries.

 

If you think fuckboys are an invention that came with the smartphone and the subsequent ability to leave you on read and text "U up?" at 3AM, you clearly never heard of Don Giovanni.

 

It is my belief that a story cannot be seriously compelling if it doesn't feature a situation that totally blows, and that, my friends, is the foundation of timeless problems. In this blog, I'll investigate how heroes and heroines of literature and opera have handled the same relationship horrors that you have, so you can gain perspective and move on by realizing this crappy feeling you're stuck with right now has been experienced by countless people before you, fictional and otherwise.

 

It'll also provide inspiration for stuff to read and listen to in order to move on and put your timeless problem in the past. Send me your condundrums, and let me tell you how our fictional friends made it through a similar sucky situation.

 

Let's get cracking on your conundrums.