Within this short story, we’re presented with two couples within different stages of their relationships, from the newlywed Nick and Laura to Mel and Terri, who are in a tumultuous five-year relationship. From the initial beginning, we’re given the exposition, where these two couples are sitting around, consuming alcohol when the discussion of what real love is brought up after Terri’s mention of her previous relationship with a man named Ed. Which starts the rising action within the tale, where the history of Terri’s highly abusive relationship with Ed reveled and how she believed it was due towards how deeply his love for her was. Whereas Mel, is constantly disagreeing with her, that what Ed had for her was nowhere near love but something