Break It Down: A man tries to calculate what love costs (1983) [audio]

[NaOH]

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/88/numbers/act-five-1

[dauertewigkeit]

At first I thought it was a passport bro on vacation, but it turns out it was a love affair (cheating). Everything about this is disgusting and whoever pushes this shit as some kind of romance needs a kick in the butt.

[re → dauertewigkeit]

> it turns out it was a love affair (cheating)

I don't know where you got this idea from, but it can't be from listening to this short story.

[FrustratedMonky → re]

Maybe he is miss-understanding the word 'affair'.

Today a lot of people use 'affair' as meaning cheating.

But it used to just mean any activity, and a 'love affair' is just an event, or two people in love, with no cheating implied. Just the act of loving.

Now I wonder if 'affair' started getting used in reference to cheating because of loveless marriages, so any 'love' affair must imply cheating?

[re → FrustratedMonky]

The word "affair" does not appear in the transcript of the episode; my only guess is that the commenter googled the name of the story looking for a summary and saw "love affair" in some of the results.

[bboygravity → dauertewigkeit]

Name 1 American romantic commedy movie that doesn't involve cheating.

[IAmBroom → bboygravity]

Singing in the Rain

You've Got Mail

Sleepless in Seattle

When Harry Met Sally...

Bridget Jones's Diary

Seriously, most of them. What is your problem?

[evanjrowley → bboygravity]

Meet the Fockers (2004)

[cafard → bboygravity]

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