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couples' trip - loser or liberated?  CAROLYN HA, Seattle Post-
Intelligencer Updated 12:54 pm, Thursday, March 28, 2013 Larger
| Smaller Email This Page 1 of 1  Hi, Carolyn:  I was supposed
to go on a trip with some friends that, not by design but by
fate, just worked out to be a couples' trip consisting of four
pairs sharing a house. Then I broke up with my boyfriend,
unexpectedly, this month.  A trip with friends is probably just
what I need, but (perhaps I'm being a baby) I'm nervous about
how I will feel being surrounded by all those happy couples,
watching everyone go off to bed together at the end of the night
while I sleep alone. What do you think -- go, or bail? If I
bail, I'll still pay my share.  -- Trip?  Part of this is about
your friends, who have it in their power not to treat you as
"other." Presumably you know at least some of them well enough
to project how (un)fazed they'll be a