"Negative Two: Our Relationship in Arithmetic" by Heather K. is an emotional piece comparing relationships to mathematics. Not mathematics like "you + me = happily ever after"  but complicated math like multiplying complex fractions and dealing with remainders and variables. Stuff that's way too complicated for my tiny eighth grade mind. But I do understand the feeling of confusion and regret that comes after ending or while considering ending a relationship. Heather starts out her piece by talking about how she accepts the fact that she was the one at fault for the end of the relationship. She continues to explain why she did this using mathematical terminology such as "In the long division of things, you and I were never going to end up as a perfectly square interval." Then she says things got better, there were "recalculated." And then another variable entered. By the end of the piece, Heather realizes that she feels bad for hurting the person the way she did, but in the long run her decision to end the relationship was the best one for her to have made.
    

Relationships are difficult. Each person comes with their own baggage, but to fall in love is the choice to help the other person carry their baggage all the way to the ends of forever. Sometimes one person gives up; it just happens. I gave up recently. I decided I didn't want to carry his baggage along with my own. But when I left him, my life didn't add up. I was missing a vital part of my equation to happiness. Him. So I walked back to him and offered to lend him a hand. He let me back into his life. He let carry his baggage. And everything made sense again. And so I will help him carry his bags, all the way to the ends of forever, or at least as far as he'll let me. To Heather: I wish you luck on all your future relationships and I hope you keep making the right decisions so that your life is always balanced and perfectly equal.