Flying Solo

by Linda Holmes

“I can’t wait to see her.” “You’ve been gone like three days,” Laurie said. “Laur,” he said, “you know I don’t care if you ever get married, and you know I don’t care if you live by yourself or live with somebody else. I don’t even care if you give in to whatever this thing with Nick is. But if you’re surprised that I’m excited to see Lisa after four days, then I’m glad you didn’t marry Chris. Because you deserve to miss the hell out of somebody after four days, and you deserve to have them miss you too.”

“you don’t have to be single to be independent. And you don’t have to be married to be loved. That’s not the choice. And I think you owe it to yourself to at least figure out what options you have before you assume that what you really want is impossible.”