Why Her Plus-One Brought a Gun to My Heart

If your date brings anyone to your date (even if you stupidly agreed to it), just stand up and leave without saying a word; your silence will echo louder than her poor decision-making.

There’s taking a break, and then there’s rewiring your entire central nervous system because a woman you liked invited you to a date… and brought her ex-boyfriend.

No, this is not a test of your emergency broadcast system. This was real life. And no, I wasn’t on mushrooms or caught in some twisted AI-generated reality simulation—though honestly, either w…