A woman had written to an
advice columnist about how fat and lazy her longtime partner — whom she also describes as «intelligent, accomplished, emotionally mature,
kind, loving, and funny» — had become, only to be told, «I'm sick, sick, sick
of women beating up on tubby guys... Take him as he is!
So then why do so many magazine articles and
advice columnists advise the single — well, the female single — among us to see the day as a way to celebrate love, any
kind of love, so we can «survive» it.