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Dear Breakup Girl,

Hello, I am 20-years-old, and I've been with my boyfriend for three years. Lately, all he wants to do is fish. It sucks. I never see him; I'm so depressed. I think maybe he doesn't want to be with me. I ask him and he says I'm wiggin' out. Help! What to do?

-- Stacey

Dear Stacey,

Well, I would recommend that you see The Perfect Storm in order to understand the, um, lure of fishing. But that would be like telling you to see Titanic in order to understand the "upside" of steerage.

Or I would tell you to try fishing yourself, or at least some sort of mermaid-costume role play -- but I get the sense, somehow, that this is already one Andrea Gail of a lost cause. Maybe it's because he seems to be dismissing your concerns? I mean, you two should have hobbies that you enjoy separately. But if one of you starts to feel too separate, then the hobby you should take on together is trying to talk about it constructively ("How about you fish one day a weekend, and we hang out the other?").

If you can't get to that point, then I'd give you the same advice I gave this hockey widow, only in fishing language. But since I'm not this guy, let me simply be the first to say it might be time to find your next mate.

Love,
Breakup Girl

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