The Real Lady Detective Agency: A True Story. Rebecca Jane

again, so I can look for ‘true love’. Pah! What’s that when it’s at home? Does it even exist? Or is it just a fairy tale invented by marketing types?

      You know what I’m hating? Other people’s relationships. I’m absolutely sick and tired of them. They argue and bicker all the time, and it’s stressful to listen to my friends complaining of this or that about their other halves. Very worryingly, I think I’m becoming a ‘relationship basher’. I just have to read the newspaper to see all the horrors of cheating, wife-beating and general lies to wonder – what is the point? Why do people actually get together? When I look around me, I realise I don’t know any couples who are truly happy … or at least I don’t think they are. Even the friends who are getting married have issues. I think back to my own wedding day, when I knew in my heart of hearts I shouldn’t be doing it. What if everyone out there is the same? What if everyone is unhappy? What if relationships are a serious figment of fairy tales? The thought that true love is a total myth is highly disturbing but I’ve come to the conclusion it’s true. I don’t think real love between couples exists. There – see? – I said it!