In “Both Sides of a Breakup,” The Cut talks to exes about how they got together and why they split up. When Elana, 48, met Patrick, 50, she thought their political differences might balance each other out. After moving upstate and having a child together, things only got worse.
Elana: I met Pat about ten years ago, just before the 2016 election. I was 38. We met on Tinder. I had just returned to New York, where I’m from, after living in London for a few years; I worked as a correspondent for an American magazine. I was laid off and had to move back home into a Brooklyn studio that I owned and had been renting out.
Patrick: I thought it was impressive that she’d been living in London. I found her work interesting. She had interviewed a lot of British movie stars.
