Daniel Sloss
Appearances
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
You can spend five or more years with someone and only then, after all the fun you had, be looking at the jigsaw and realize you're both working towards very different images. only then realize that you want different things. And in that moment, you have a very, very difficult question to ask yourself. One, do I admit the last five years of my life have been a waste?
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
Two, do I waste the rest of my life My generation has become so obsessed with starting the rest of their lives that they're willing to give up the one they are currently living. We have romanticized the idea of romance and it is cancerous. I am very aware that this is not a particularly funny bit of the show.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
There are 7.5 billion people on this planet. And you found your soulmate 20 miles from where you live.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
But you just sit there and you wait, you wait looking for an excuse to get out. Just waiting for them to do something unforgivable. so that you can actually break up with them with a real excuse and leave with your head held high. But because unlike you, they're not a piece of shit, they won't do that. So you have to start lowering your standards for what unforgivable is.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
One weekend, you're like, if they cheat on me, this is perfect. I can leave with my head held high and I will not look like a dick. Nine weeks later, they're faithful and you're like, man, if they buy orange juice with pulp in it, that is... I can't live like that.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
All I'm asking is if you've ever been in a situation like that, in a relationship where you felt trapped, like you couldn't get out of it and it was just easier to stay in it, all I'm asking is if even for the briefest of seconds, have you ever accidentally caught yourself thinking how much easier life would be if they were to just die?
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
And not because you want them to die, but just because them dying is like the easiest way for you to get out of that relationship. And it doesn't involve either one of you getting hurt emotionally.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
I mean, he was happy. Yeah. So it felt good. And, you know, I never thought that they were the perfect couple. I never thought that they would be together forever. Like when they were together, I was like, oh, this ain't it. She's great. You're great. But you together ain't great.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
Imagine all of our lives are like our own individual jigsaw puzzles. And as we're going through life, we're just slowly piecing it together bit by bit.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
I was at a nightclub and a girl came up to me and she was like, I saw your show a week ago and I broke up with my partner. And I was like, oh, cool. Awesome. Like, are you better for it? She was like, yeah, I'm way better for it. I'm much happier. That's why I'm out.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
Some of us will take the wrong person, the wrong jigsaw piece and just fucking jam them into our jigsaws anyway.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
This, he must have been about 50, 52 years old, guy came up to me and he went, hey man, just wanted to let you know I saw the show and I finally got these through and he showed me the first divorce papers. And I remember feeling like, oh, this is, this is something.
This American Life
856: You’ve Come to the Right Person
We're in Hungary and a guy had driven, I'm going to say like 800 miles from somewhere like in Russia with his divorce papers just to see the show.