So I was on my own, and this guy sat next to me.
I think my wife had our daughter out somewhere. And I was sitting at this brewery near my house, and I was eating dinner. The only time I remember it ever going really well- really well- I'd been in Austin maybe for about a month. And he was the one thing she thought she could depend on. For starters, her boyfriend had been the one steady thing in her life, right? She's going through this hard time with banks and credit cards, and it's not ending. It's really interesting, and I think it could happen to a lot of us. And before you judge, before you think how could she do that, I'll explain how. They stayed together for another year and a half. He was the identity thief who made her so totally stressed out over money all the time, who drove her to the point where she was looking over her shoulder as she walked to her own post office box. She did not put together the whole truth, that he'd been stealing from her for over a year, that he was the identity thief, not some stranger in a dingy apartment in Chicago. That tiny morsel of truth was all she was able to take in at that point. And she believed that the disorder is what caused him to steal the very last money she had in this world and forge her name on a check and then search for the check with her, pretending he had no idea where the check could have gone. So at the time she accepted, all right, he has an impulse control disorder. From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life. Here is an hour to make you feel good about that for a change. Single people, there are 32 million of you living alone, 107 million of you unmarried. Let's talk about that for a change, instead of how great it is to be married forever and blah, blah, blah, Bridget Jones' wedding toast, blah, blah, blah. There are downsides to being close to somebody. We have people on nervous first dates, bravely fighting their own insecurities and anxieties. Today, we have grown men awkwardly trying to make friends with each other not sure what to talk about. That's what our show's about today, the perils of intimacy.
To get close, you have to agree, I trust you, I believe you, I know that what you say is true, you know what I say is true. This is one of the dangers of getting close to somebody.
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