Tashi So you think he’s going to break up with you?

Sad Mark I do. I really do.

Sad Tashi But why?

Sad Mark Because I’m a horrible boyfriend?

Tashi Truth’s, are you?

Mark I don’t think I am, but I suppose I must be, if that makes sense.

Tashi All too much, yes.

Mark I mean he wants to stay in and I seem to want to go out. When I want to stay in it’s like he wants to go out.

Tashi You are not on the same pages.

Mark Not at all, it feels like. And that just makes me tired. Then I don’t want to see him because I feel like we’ll start going at it again.

Sad Tashi So you fight, in your head, before you even have a fight?

Mark Thus ensuring I have a fight, yup.

Tashi Well that isn’t the smartest of moves, Mark…

Angry Mark I know that!

Tashi I mean…

Mark No, really, I get that, ‘Tashi. I do. But that doesn’t make it stop, either.

Tashi I know, dearling, I know. Just, you could at least try.

Mark You think I don’t try?

Tashi I am sure you try.

Angry Mark I should just try harder?

Tashi You could, perhaps try harder.

Mark That’s totally unfair, ‘Tashi.

Tashi No, it is just not easy.

Mark I try. I try hard. But you can’t just shift your behavior because you know something else makes more sense.

Tashi No, of course not. No one is saying…

Angry Mark You are!

Angry Tashi No one is saying that you should, Mark! But, perhaps, if you worked as hard on the relationship as you intend to… maybe then it would be a bit better.

Angry Mark Oh, come on!

Angry Tashi How many times have you said you want to work on it only to not work on it because it was harder than you liked? How many relationships overall have you done that with?

Angry Mark And how many times have you done it?

Angry Tashi We’re not discussing me, here.

Angry Mark Why not, huh?

Tashi Mark… let us, perhaps both calm down before one of us says something we can not take back.

Mark You’re right. We don’t want to open up the can of worms that is your life, anyway.

Angry Tashi Mark…

Mark No, really, ‘Tashi. Please dispense more advice.

Angry Tashi Mark…

Sad Mark No, you’re right, ‘Tashi. I’m sorry.

Tashi Thank you.

Mark Yeah.

Tashi But, seriously, if you just try harder…

Angry Mark Why do you think it’s that simple for me, huh? That all it is is that I don’t want to work more?

Tashi I know it isn’t simple, or easy, Mark that’s the point. There is no use in getting mad at me about it.

Angry Mark I just… no, you know what? I’ll talk to you later.

Angry Tashi Mark…

Angry Tashi Mark!

Sad Tashi Mark… ?

Sad Tashi…

Sad Tashi…