Photo-Illustration: James Gallagher This week, a woman Zoom-chatting her husband, texting her ex, and getting a long-overdue afternoon hookup: 41, married, Harlem.5:30 a.m. My cats begin their morning routine of waking me up and demanding food with increasingly obnoxious tactics. I finally get up to feed them. I go back to bed and try to go to sleep. It has been a rough several months — insomnia is a nightly struggle. I figure I can at least get myself off to help me go back to sleep.
9:00 p.m. Sundays are generally a quiet day for me. Before I get to bed, I text with an ex, and the conversation gets a little steamy. The rules for my poly marriage are that I let my husband know if I plan to see a partner but mostly only if I am going over to their place. He doesn’t want to meet anyone I see or date, but I have met most of the women he sees. We opened our relationship a couple of years into dating and have continued throughout our marriage.
10:00 p.m. I try to go to bed early, when my best friend texts. We text back and forth, and before I realize it, it’s already 1:30 a.m. Oh well, I guess I can try to go to bed early another night.8:00 a.m. This morning it is hard to get out of bed. I know I am going to be on call all night for my volunteer job — I’m on call at an emergency room, working with survivors of sexual assault or intimate-partner violence — so it is really hard to want to get up.
10:00 a.m. I’m not sure I feel any different, but I head out for my run and complete my daily workout. 9:00 p.m. I finish my evening watching Watchmen, which I’ve been told to watch by E., my friend and former partner, who I haven’t seen since the end of February. He was the first person I ever told I loved. The word is so loaded to me, and I know he has the same experience with it too. It took me a long time to say it, and it was at the end of our sexual relationship as he was getting more serious with another partner who wanted monogamy.
Why do these people always seem to be complete narcissists?
Who doesn't
Nice! Sounds like trash.
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