What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship