Don’t Say That This is the End

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I got a letter today from a writer I haven’t heard from in over a decade, maybe longer. We didn’t end on a bad note, we just ended or so I thought. Are agents and clients supposed to mate for life? Some break ups are as bad as marriages and I know I’ve handled my fair share badly. Never purposefully, but I didn’t have the poise, the skill, the courage to say what I felt or needed. I know an agent who broke up with clients by not returning their calls and emails. “Eventually,” she said, “they take the hint.” The goal is to stay together, to keep inspiring and enjoying the mutual admiration society of two, to feel that we are in this rat fuck together.

What’s the secret to long term relationships?