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It was all because I’d read and mocked a fine example of one of the most common, and in some ways silliest, of self-help books: the relationship advice manual.ĭon’t pretend you haven’t seen them, shelved neatly beside the likes of Wendish Women Never Count Calories or Vandal in the Corner Office: Ten Management Tips from History’s Greatest Barbarians.
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We laughed about it often, and even now, years after we broke up, it’s still one of my happiest memories of that relationship. However, I do love terrible books, and it is entirely due to one of these that I made and lost that bet. It was only the second time I’d ever made a bet with him (two words: blue lobsters) and it was assuredly the last.īefore anyone gets the impression that I’m a weekend boozer or have a fetish for oddly colored sea creatures with large clacking claws, let me assure you that neither is true. I also nearly spilled a strawberry daiquiri all over his side of the bed, scared the cat, and generally made a fool of myself on that long ago Saturday morning. I once bet my boyfriend he wouldn’t remember something that I said a year later.