Author Read: He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.3 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Love now and do you fall. |
| 0:04.0 | Do you follow the love? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm stronger than anything. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm not love for love. |
| 0:09.0 | And I love you more than anything. |
| 0:12.0 | They're still love. |
| 0:13.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Modern Love. |
| 0:20.0 | Jessica Slice wrote a Modern Love essay about a guy she was dating years ago. |
| 0:24.5 | This guy was kind and dependable and caring. |
| 0:27.8 | He really listened and he made it clear that he was serious about her. |
| 0:31.8 | In other words, this was the kind of guy that |
| 0:35.2 | Jessica always ran from. Here's Jessica reading her full Modern Love essay. |
| 0:49.0 | David said he knew I was interested because of my body language. I had turned to face him on the small wooden bench, |
| 0:52.0 | tucking my feet under me and resting my arm on the backrest. |
| 0:56.0 | He was carrying a backpack and asked if I wanted to borrow Joan Didion slouching towards Bethlehem. But he had misread my body language. |
| 1:07.8 | I was not trying to show I was interested. The truth is, benches hurt my body and turning to the side was the only way to make |
| 1:16.2 | sitting there tolerable. I have Ayler Stanlos Syndrome, a painful connective tissue disorder, and dysedonomia, which affects my ability to sit, stand, |
| 1:27.0 | digest, and regulate temperature. Because of these illnesses, many positions are either painful or impossible to sustain for more than a minute or two. |
| 1:40.0 | Leaning straight back against the wooden slats with David that day head nudged my ribs out of place. |
| 1:48.0 | They ached. My bruised pelvis throbbed on the firm surface. Turning to the side allowed me to adjust my |
| 1:55.7 | weight onto the meteor part of my bottom. I could use my arm to prop myself away from the |
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