"  It’s the kind of con­nec­tion that can only come from years of deep emo­tion­al manip­u­la­tion, great hope and good sex, punc­tu­at­ed by abor­tion, phys­i­cal vio­lence, restrain­ing orders, sev­er­al deaths, and even­tu­al­ly an under­stand­ing that it was all so silly and some­how so seri­ous that you’ll never be able to fully escape each other, even if you never speak again"

— http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/how-to-pick-a-present-for-your-ex-boyfriends-40th-birthday/