=== Margaux (29, Santa Fe, NM) ===
voice: Tessa
emotional_register: Sharp intelligence turned against herself, dark humor as a coping mechanism, more raw than she intended to be
secret_want: To hear someone say that leaving a perfectly fine person for no dramatic reason is something real adults actually do.

CALLER (Margaux, 29, Santa Fe, NM): I don't have a question, I just — what do you do when you realize you've been lying to yourself for like two years?
LUKE: Wait — really?
CALLER: I mean, not lying exactly. That's not fair. I just... I kept telling myself I was happy because everything looked fine on paper, you know? He's stable, he's nice, he doesn't yell or cheat or any of that stuff. But I realized tonight that I don't actually like him. Like as a person. And I've known it for a while, I think. I just didn't want to know it.
LUKE: Yeah?
CALLER: Yeah. And the worst part is there's no reason. There's no big thing I can point to. He didn't do anything wrong. He just... he's boring. He's kind of boring and he slightly irritates me and I've been confusing not fighting with actually being in love and I don't know how to leave someone when the only real reason is that I don't like them very much anymore.
LUKE: Wait — really?
CALLER: Yes. Really. I know how that sounds. I know I'm supposed to be grateful or whatever. Most people would kill for stable and nice and no drama. And I am grateful, I think. But gratitude isn't love and I've been trying to make it into love for two years and it's not working.
LUKE: Mm-hmm.
CALLER: I drove over to pull over after that song and I just sat there in my car and I realized I've practiced breaking up with him like forty times. Forty times, Luke. And I always start crying at the same part where I say "you're a good person" because he is, and that's the problem. How do you leave someone who didn't do anything wrong?
