both sides now

Ron:
“So I’m catching up with this chick I know from back in the day and she tells me she recently broke up with some dude. It turns out the guy got his ex-girlfriend pregnant, which my friend found out just before she was going to meet his parents. Man, it's not only guys who have it rough...the ladies struggle too.”

Me:
“Well, the ladies always struggle with the myriad of douche-bags and clueless idiots out there. But they are frequently under the impression that it's not a two-way street. A while back a female friend told me that my love life has opened her eyes to this fact: she used to think that, most of the time, it was just us guys screwing up. Now, she knows better.

Obviously, I don't know your friend but I wouldn't be surprised if she still has feelings for that dude. If that makes me sexist, cynical, jaded, etc. I'm fine with that. But nice guys rarely have the luxury of having women still pining for them when they make a mistake.
And yes, I said mistake; not a fuck up like the guy in the story.”

the alarm

“You say your divorce hasn’t affected you but I think you’re in denial. I mean, how is it that a romantic guy, who loves women,
and has no problem meeting or talking to them, has been single for almost a decade and just sleeping his way through Brooklyn?”

I think he pretty much nailed it. Fuck.