It's official:
New developments in the walking calamity that is The Duchess has forced me to concede that he is now unofficially the basis for the character of Matt Keh. We've started on this running gag in the scripts that every girl MK gets a date with suddenly becomes his soul mate. Wellllll...
I just went to facebook and saw this little gem:
"<3 The Duchess is now in a relationship with this girl he eMet maybe 4 eDays ago." This kid is barely 22 and he's doing the hard and serious search for "The One." I keep trying to impress upon him that life isn't about the destination, but he seems hellbent.
I'm not saying I don't understand the appeal of a stable relationship early on. I do. I was two years in to my relationship with Robyn at his age and that stability was very comforting. What kills me is he keeps rushing headlong into these "relationships" and then burns out within a few months because he doesn't know how to keep any kind of distance.
He falls off the grid. Not the worst thing for me, mind you, as it means some solace from his youthful ignorance. But he disappears from the world entirely because he's totally trying to make himself her world. Then when she gets sick of him always being there, he suddenly wants to hang out again, go to the bar, blah blah blah because he just can't understand why she doesn't want to see him anymore and it doesn't occur to him that just cropping up because hims needz uh fwiend to tawk to after however many weeks it ends up being is bad form.
I've tried to tell him. Maintain a little separation, dude. If the girl can't crap because you're up her ass all the time, she's going to take the relationship EX-Lax. Emphasis on "ex" if you catch my meaning. He'll play it off. "Oh, whatever. There's plenty of fish out there." You can see that it eats him up, though. He can't let it go and stays bitter. At least until the next girl eComes along. Hmm... I guess it's good he's not picking up his girls on eBay.
I just went to facebook and saw this little gem:
"<3 The Duchess is now in a relationship with this girl he eMet maybe 4 eDays ago." This kid is barely 22 and he's doing the hard and serious search for "The One." I keep trying to impress upon him that life isn't about the destination, but he seems hellbent.
I'm not saying I don't understand the appeal of a stable relationship early on. I do. I was two years in to my relationship with Robyn at his age and that stability was very comforting. What kills me is he keeps rushing headlong into these "relationships" and then burns out within a few months because he doesn't know how to keep any kind of distance.
He falls off the grid. Not the worst thing for me, mind you, as it means some solace from his youthful ignorance. But he disappears from the world entirely because he's totally trying to make himself her world. Then when she gets sick of him always being there, he suddenly wants to hang out again, go to the bar, blah blah blah because he just can't understand why she doesn't want to see him anymore and it doesn't occur to him that just cropping up because hims needz uh fwiend to tawk to after however many weeks it ends up being is bad form.
I've tried to tell him. Maintain a little separation, dude. If the girl can't crap because you're up her ass all the time, she's going to take the relationship EX-Lax. Emphasis on "ex" if you catch my meaning. He'll play it off. "Oh, whatever. There's plenty of fish out there." You can see that it eats him up, though. He can't let it go and stays bitter. At least until the next girl eComes along. Hmm... I guess it's good he's not picking up his girls on eBay.