18-Mar-2007
"I hate relationship drama. I hate affairs that hurt people's feelings. I hate getting involved with people's friends. I hate cliques of any kind. I tend to get involved with people that none of my friends know. The down side is that they often end up being Russian mail-order brides I meet on Hollywood Boulevard." --Bett Williams
Some of us never get lucky enough to land in a relationship. For those of us who do, it's a common delusion to believe all our woman-centered woes have ended. But we're simply in for a new brand of dyke drama--more domesticated, yes, but no less confusing. The shift is in trying to maintain the illusion as more and more flaws move from hinter into the foreground. Passion fades. You get by on memories of passion. Then one night you stare out the corner of one eye in disbelief at her complacent figure draped in the raggedy beige flannel pajamas her mother rescued from last year's Memorial Day garage sale: This is the beginning of what is called "the relationship."
