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Panel 1:
GRAHAM: So Ellie was telling me about something called the "Boyfriend Sweater Curse." You guys ever heard of this?
MKG1: Nah, what's that?
Panel 2:
GRAHAM: Apparently if a girl starts knitting a sweater for a guy, it means they're gonna break up.
MKG2: Weird. But it makes sense. By the way, MKG3, how are you and Amy doing?
Panel 3:
MKG3: We'd been having troubles, and I THOUGHT we were doing fine but now...
GRAHAM: What's up?
Panel 4:
MKG3: She just made me this sweater.
MKG2: Aw, dude.
GRAHAM. Man, I'm so sorry.
GRAHAM: So Ellie was telling me about something called the "Boyfriend Sweater Curse." You guys ever heard of this?
MKG1: Nah, what's that?
Panel 2:
GRAHAM: Apparently if a girl starts knitting a sweater for a guy, it means they're gonna break up.
MKG2: Weird. But it makes sense. By the way, MKG3, how are you and Amy doing?
Panel 3:
MKG3: We'd been having troubles, and I THOUGHT we were doing fine but now...
GRAHAM: What's up?
Panel 4:
MKG3: She just made me this sweater.
MKG2: Aw, dude.
GRAHAM. Man, I'm so sorry.
Poor, poor Mark…
My theory about the sweater curse is that a guy sees a girl putting in all this time and effort into a thing (I bet most guys never realized how LONG it takes to make a sweater!), and that they both see it as some kind of symbol of commitment. You don’t start a multi-month project for a casual fling! And my guess is that weirds some people out, when things like that haven’t already been discussed, and then combine that with other issues like whether or not he actually likes/wears it in the end … I could totally see sweater-knitting as a catalyst for disaster.
That said, I knit my boyfriend a sweater two years into our relationship, and we were happy as clams for four years afterwards. So, you know, whatever