Throupling
By Autumn Palen
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It’s a classic tale of girl meets boy (and girl). Super simple, right?
Marlene, Gaspard, and Jasmine all find themselves dumped by their significant others on the same day. Lonely, lost, and freshly single, the three find that sparks fly when their paths cross. As they tread into new terrain, can they navigate their love triangle without bruised feelings?
Marlene, sensitive sweetheart in a dead-end job, decides to pull up her roots and chase her dreams head-on — once she figures out what those dreams are, that is.
Gaspard, artistic recluse, dusts the cobwebs from his social calendar and opens his heart (and his living-room curtains) for the first time in a long time.
Jasmine, resilient rocker with a backlog of sugar mamas, realizes she needs to listen to her heart to be the best, most boss version of herself there is.
Together, they learn to love themselves as they fall in love with one another. Happily ever after? It may not exist. But this moment, right now, is pretty good.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Going on this adventure with Marlene and meeting Jasmine and Gaspard was so much fun. I love the characters and the little world they build for themselves makes me feel warm.
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Throupling - Autumn Palen
Throupling
"Can I talk to you?"
Those five words know how to travel directly from my ears to the pit of my stomach. Immediately, as I heard my boyfriend ask that question, tone firm but body language intentionally nonthreatening, I began scanning the familiar surroundings of our cozy one-bedroom apartment with fresh eyes, searching for the quickest and simplest way to evacuate the building.
Just as I’d begun contemplating whether or not a two-story fall from the kitchen window would break any of my limbs, he continued.
Marlene, are you listening?
Yes,
I murmured, burrowing further into our couch, still eyeing the enticing fire escape.
He took a seat across from me, in the hard, decorative wooden chair usually reserved for our bags or stacks of unsorted mail. There was little to no benefit to this seating decision on his part, save for the fact that it gave him a few inches of height over me, the quivering partner, curled on the cushiony futon. That, and it forced his posture to be straight and stern when he told me––
I’ve been thinking; we should see other people.
He had been thinking,
this much was very clear. Every moment of this felt preplanned. I wasn’t sure if it was more of a punch to the gut that he seemed to have already done a walk-through, like a delicately rehearsed one-man show, or if I would have been more devastated to be dumped off-the-cuff.
I nodded and murmured as he carried out the rest of his performance, already un-planning events in my head. Unscheduling date nights. Kicking myself for buying his birthday gift so far in advance. Wondering if anyone else I knew would want an engraved watch that said Walter
on it.
As he got up from the too-hard chair, gave my knee a delicate touch, and returned to the kitchen for his hash browns and eggs, I realized something else about this monologue: he’d made it from upon his own stage, from the safety of his home turf. I was the one who would have to return to my old, bare, and dormant nest, alone and abandoned. The process of doing so would only be a hair less painful than an arm fracture from a two-story tumble.
Section BreakI am the first, but not the last, to admit that I am a sensitive person — exemplified, at least partially, by the fact that my boss, Debra, has seen me stress-cry on several occasions: During my first gig with her at a bat mitzvah when I couldn’t find the placemats. During a corporate retreat when I placed the tray of deli meats too close to the bowl of fresh fruits and the client yelled at me so hard his neck veins looked like the roots of an oak tree. Point is, I’m easy to crumble, like a peach tart.
Today, however, no crumbling. As I served food and drinks at, of all things, a four-year-old’s birthday party in an opulent suburban home, my eyes stayed dry, my chin uncrumpled. Here — in a symbol of the theoretical future of offspring, beagles, and a white picket fence that I could’ve seen having with Walter, were he not busy wanting to see other people, other futures, and perhaps other breeds of dog.
As rug rats galloped and trampled around my ankles, clawing with their