I'll do it. We never dated, just hung out together in a theatre/music gang, and wound up together sometimes too.
   Exclusivity came about the hard way, she was living with someone who also became, in my mind, my best friend. There were hurt feelings and a mess all around. Things cleared up, is all one can briefly say.

   She was three years older back then, when I was 17, but now we're about the same age.

   What faults--she was a little cloying/cutesy it seemed to me back then, said "I missed you not being here" when I hope she meant the opposite, and cannot change in any way regardless how trivial. The pattern goes like this:

EXAMPLE. I ask if we can simply keep my large spoon for measuring coffee sitting out, like a scoop, and use others to stir stuff.

SHE MISUNDERSTANDS AT GREAT LENGTH. She washed it because it was dirty. It's weirdly difficult to explain that I mean Let's not stir with it and get it dirty--it's my measuring spoon.

SHE GETS UPSET. The difficulty of explaining what I mean makes it all a big deal and I wish I'd never brought it up.

I APOLOGISE AT GREAT LENGTH.

SHE GOES BACK TO THE ORIGINAL MISUNDERSTANDING. Wherein she thinks I wish she wouldn't wash the dirty spoon, which is now always dirty when I need it, because she stirs with it and thinks I don't ever want it washed.

   
   Single I'd be dead. Sensing this, I guess, S.O. suggested a particular person I should marry in the event. I said I didn't think I'd remarry, she said I would need help. I would, and I'm sure this person is waiting for me to marry her.