Sugar Thompson just hit 35 and has decided to expand her couples/sex therapy resort into franchises. There's just a few tiny hiccups. Her partner Gage wants things to remain as they are, and he's just confessed his love for her. Sugar prefers to keep her freedom to move on relegating men to sex, not relationships. Gage prefers stability and long-term attachments. Could this match ever work out? The stakes are high because the outcome of their relationship questions also affects the outcome of their business.

Sugar has classic commitment-phobia. She refuses to settle down and acknowledge, much less cultivate, attachment out of a fear that she will be hurt - stemming from the overdone cliche of a poor parental relationship. Every single problem that crops up in their relationship Sugar immediately turns into a fatal sign that they were never meant to be together. I just wanted to throttle her. Meanwhile, the author attempted to shift at least some of the blame to Gage for "not fighting" for the relationship as she pushed him away and told him how it would never work in every single breath.

Yes, relationships are worth fighting for if you really love somebody, but how much abuse, doubt, and fatalism can a mere mortal take?

In short: I know we were supposed to want a happy ending, but I really wish he had just left her. She sabotaged the relationship from the beginning, and I don't see why all the burden should be on one person to shore up love, no matter which gender.
(The resort was really cool though. I would totally go. ) ( )