She Keeps Threatening To Leave

I took a walk on Shabbos with a distraught young black man in a tallis whose new live-in girlfriend had drained his bank account in a month from $5,000 to $2,000. “If I don’t keep giving her cash, she’ll leave me for guys who will,” he said. I told him he needed to leave her and be on his own for a while to detox. “I was alone for a year,” he said. “I hated it.” I suggested he go to a 12-step program for sex and love addiction.