Couples WAY, WAY more high-profile than Mindy and BJ manage to be in committed relationships/be married/have kids. One of her best friends, Lena Dunham, is in a committed, long-term relationship with an incredibly successful, constantly touring musician. Incredibly busy, highly successful people get together all the…

Totally!

Yeah, I don’t need a reminder of how sad and dreary it is to have one’s primary relationships be with a noncommittal windbags like BJ Novak. I mean, he’s gotta be the most overpraised millenial of our time, and it says bad things about Kaling that she’s attracted to that.

“Kelly and I both agreed that we would just have fun, and, I’m learning that fun for Kelly is… getting married and having babies. Immediately. With me.”

See I always thought “complicated” was code for “sleeping with your ex”, which fits too.

It sounds uninteresting because of the people involved. I don’t know why but I really cannot fucking stand Kaling (I do know why actually, she seems racist and like countless minorities who you KNOW would turn themselves white in a heartbeat if they ever feasibly could). Novak is the average white man in the U.S.…

Exactly. A “complicated friendship” that will last until he marries someone who isn’t her, and then all emotional hell breaks loose.

Wasn’t there already a book exactly like this called He’s Just Not That Into You?

HE JUST DOESN’T WANT TO RUIN THE FRIENDSHIP, OK??????

Yup yup yup, 1000x yup. Also, he’s glommed onto her coattails and is hanging on HARD. He’s not gonna give that up anytime soon. I really don’t get how people don’t see right through him. Dude strikes me as being a crapweasel.

I feel dense because I didn’t even know they were like a thing.

Amen. Like, I did my time in the Office (US) fandom... I’m already in too deep, so let me be the nosy creep I was born to be.

Ohhhhhhh, complicated. Code word for “Still looking.”

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I mean...there’s nothing that complicated about it. They would be in a committed, monogamous relationship if they both wanted to be. They are both in their 30s and I’m sure at least half (if not more) of their friends are in committed relationships/married/have kids. They are not because one or both parties do not…

From what I’ve read and listened to, the gap between those two things may be slim.

I’m torn — I’ve enjoyed both their books; I like both of them a lot; and I’m so pleased they seem to get along SO well.

This is great news. I’ve been dying for more specific details about this relationship for years, and I will gladly pay money to hear more about it because I’m a nosy bitch.

Jesus Christ, over ten years?? Mindy, honestly, move on. You can tell she still loves him, and he knows, but he’s still THERE knowing what she wants and knowing he won’t ever give her that. Sometimes you need to leave so that people move on, otherwise there’s that stupid, stupid hope we all know.

More power to them, and for those of you who enjoy reading these types of things, knock yourself out, but this sounds like a terrible, terrible book.