There is No Such Thing as "On a Break"

Sometimes in life, you have to be able to pull yourself away from bad sitcoms and realize that these people do not live in the reality that we live in.

Today, I am talking about the hit show Friends.

Now, everybody knows by now that Ross and Rachel were together and then they broke up, and then Ross did it with somebody (I'm not even sure it matters who) and when he a Rachel got back together he told her that he was with somebody while they were broken up. Bully for him, manning up and admitting that to her.

When Rachel started going on about how he had cheated (?!), his response was that they were "on a break". This is where shit gets stupid.

I'm sorry, but in the real world, if you are with somebody and you break up with them, you are not together. Seriously.

So if you go out and do some stuff, and they come back to your door, however long after, you should probably expect they are going to have fucked somebody, a hooker, an ex, some girl that was drunk on the sidewalk, whatever. But just because you two mutually agree to try your relationship again, this does not give anyone the right to be offended by the other party's behavior while they were not in a relationship.

There is no way in hell that you can even justify getting mad over that. He was not your boyfriend when he got the booty! He did not cheat! There is no way that you can even misconstrue that as cheating!

Do you cheat on your grocery store when it's 2 am and you end up at the Kroger to buy milk? NO.

Do you cheat on your mechanic when you take your car to Jiffy Lube for an oil change? NO.

Do you cheat on your pet when you go to someone else's house and get other pet hair all over your sweater? NO.

"But Tia, you are being ridiculous." you say.

I am not.

When two people break up, they have ended the relationship, and therefore revoked their claim to the person they have broken up with. You have no right over their actions, and no right over anything else about them either.

So Rachel, go have fun at your job at Barney's and go fuck all the guys you want, but sure as hell don't break up with them if you don't want them fucking other girls ever again, because that's a fucking dream. Ross was totally within his rights as a human male to go out and get him some, and I hope it was good, or at least better than you.