Break It Down: A man tries to calculate what love costs (1983) [audio]

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At first I thought it was a passport bro on vacation, but it turns out it was a love affair (cheating). Everything about this is disgusting and whoever pushes this shit as some kind of romance needs a kick in the butt.

> it turns out it was a love affair (cheating)

I don't know where you got this idea from, but it can't be from listening to this short story.

Maybe he is miss-understanding the word 'affair'.

Today a lot of people use 'affair' as meaning cheating.

But it used to just mean any activity, and a 'love affair' is just an event, or two people in love, with no cheating implied. Just the act of loving.

Now I wonder if 'affair' started getting used in reference to cheating because of loveless marriages, so any 'love' affair must imply cheating?

The word "affair" does not appear in the transcript of the episode; my only guess is that the commenter googled the name of the story looking for a summary and saw "love affair" in some of the results.

Name 1 American romantic commedy movie that doesn't involve cheating.

Meet the Fockers (2004)

You've Got Mail?

Singing in the Rain

You've Got Mail

Sleepless in Seattle

When Harry Met Sally...

Bridget Jones's Diary

Seriously, most of them. What is your problem?

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