You’re probably not my forever person: and honestly, thank goodness

Why I strongly believe in serial monogamy

If I had an “edit” option on my life, I wouldn’t want to erase any of my long term relationships from my life. I wouldn’t want to get rid of any of the people who have seriously mattered to me. Not because the break ups were fine, not because I wasn’t angry, hurt, or sad at the end of them, but because I really loved them. I have happy memories there that are part of who I am. I learnt things. I grew as a person. I found out things about how I should behave, treat others, and de-escalate problems. There isn’t, thankfully, a single person I regret falling in love with. And consequently, I always had to break up, fall out, be rejected by, and let go, of someone else. A relationship had to come to an end.

As an adult, at the advanced age of 28, I think that’s actually not a bad thing. Because Madelaine Hanson, 22, is long dead. I buried her with a side fringe, crash diets, New Look blazers and paying in cash.