correlation tender_square there is a stinking sensation within me; something amiss rots in my heart. i feel judged and slut shamed by an article reporting on a study, of all things. it says that people of both genders who have had multiple sexual partners before marriage have higher instances of divorce than those who have had fewer. and the number of partners that spikes this likelihood up does not even hit double-digits. all afternoon, i consider the terrible sexual relationships i've explored on "indiscriminate," and find myself rush towards the conclusion that i'm a poor judge of character, that i've faced down many romantic failures, two of them legal. and i know it's reductive but i can't help but feel this data is saying that it's my own fault for being a divorcee, after giving so much of myself to men again and again. but a new inner voice emerges, assuring me that my personal experience has no basis for being defined by a percentage. 230803 what's it to you? who go blather from