She found that out in the October, about nine days after I told Davis, and she has not spoken to him since.

What she wanted to do — and she said this on a phone on a Thursday night in the October, and she meant every word of it — was to call his mother, and to call his sister, and to post something, and to tell the school where I work, and to go to his office.

And I had to spend about four months talking her out of every single one of those, and it nearly cost us.

Here is what that is actually like, and I have since found out from two other women that it is universal and that nobody mentions it.