The math ain't mathing.

And why in the context of friendship, it doesn't have to.

Just as there a few points in my marriage timeline that stand out as “times when you knew it was going to be over,” there are points in my memory that stand out as “moments when you knew your mother was messed up.”

I became engaged to my ex husband in 2005, during the summer after I graduated from law school. I was living in Austin at the time studying …