Real Talk

Relationship Hills Not Worth Dying On

by Kim Goins

Deriding your partner’s go-to overpriced salad place.

Admitting to still kind of enjoying the R. Kelly song “I Believe I Can Fly.”

Polyamory. 

Operation Iraqi Freedom, in principle. 

Making a whole-ass thing out of refusing to drink fluoridated tap water during a dinner party.

Magic: The Gathering. 

Flying Spirit to save $15 on the 4+ hour flight to visit your partner’s parents.

Not wearing socks.  

Playfully accusing your partner of succumbing to left-wing mind control when they ask you to please stop using the word “savage” as an adjective.

Vaping.

Kim Goins is an American English teacher in Seoul. This is her first publication.