Having rewatched every episode of Sex And The City since it first aired in the UK in 1999, plus the two films and now season two of the reboot, And Just Like That . . ., I have used Carrie Bradshaw’s guidance as a touchstone.
So when Carrie, a year into widowhood, met up with hunky, dependable carpenter Aidan — a man with no sharp edges — and my editor suggested that, well, perhaps the path to closure and friendship involves meeting up with your ex like Carrie, I agreed.
Because who, after all, has time to meet anyone new? There will be warmth, surely, and perhaps a spark? Fond memories of a shared life? Perhaps, when you meet an ex, you’ve both changed, grown up, are a better fit? Perhaps, being older, we’re better at being in a couple, less needy, less obsessed with work.
How wrong I was. In fact, it was more disastrous disastrous than I could have possibly imagined…
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