Is Too Naive--- ... - College Stories. My Girlfriend

By October, I had a mental list. She lent her notes to a girl who’d never once said thank you. She assumed our grumpy landlord would return her deposit because “it’s the law.” She told me she loved me after three weeks, without any of the games I’d learned to play.

I laughed, but the others didn’t. They looked at her with that gentle, slightly embarrassed pity you reserve for someone who hasn’t learned yet. That’s when I first labeled it: naive. College Stories. My Girlfriend is too naive--- ...

It took me a full semester to realize I was the one who didn’t understand—not how the world worked, but how to live in it without becoming hard. This is the story of how my “too naive” girlfriend taught me something no lecture hall could. By October, I had a mental list