JON: You haven’t been unfaithful? AN...

JON: You haven’t been unfaithful?
ANNA: No. And I don’t want to be.
JON: You want to be with other people.
ANNA: Yes. But I don’t want to be unfaithful. I just want to be with other people. And that’s why I talked to you about it. That’s what love means. Love means you figure it out.
JON: Love means you don’t go sleeping with other people.
ANNA: That’s not what it means. I don’t think that’s always what it means. Do you love me, Jon?
JON: Yes.
ANNA: And you don’t ever think about you want to be with someone else?
JON: Of course I do.
ANNA: So--
JON: But I don’t need to. I want to you, yes. I think about it. Yes. But I don’t need to. And I don’t. And that’s what love is.
ANNA: Love is so simple?
JON: No. God, Anna, look at us, no. It’s not “simple.” It’s hard.
ANNA: And so we work at it.
JON: I want to work at it. But “working at it” is something we do together. Us “working at it” is not something you can go do with some other guy. That’s the opposite of working at it.
ANNA: It isn’t if that’s what it takes to make it work.
JON: What work?
ANNA: Us work.
JON: That’s not us making it work, Anna. That’s me making it work. That’s what you want. That’s me making it work on your terms. And your terms are awful.
ANNA: What do you want?
JON: I want this to go away.
ANNA: You don’t think I want this to go away? You think I haven’t spent two years wishing this would go away?
JON: Okay. Look. I want you.
ANNA: And you can have me.
JON: Not if you’re throwing me out--
ANNA: I’m not throwing you out.
JON: Away. You’re throwing me away. To maybe-possibly-maybe be with someone else someday.
ANNA: I’m not throwing you away, Jon. I want to be with you. Always. More than anything. I want to be with you and share with you and have a life with you. But I also need to have a life. I need to feel like I haven’t wasted these past five years not having a life.
JON: Spending these last five years with me have been “wasting them?”
ANNA: Compared to what I should have been doing? Yes. Sometimes I think so, yes.
JON: You don’t answer a question like that with an answer like that.
ANNA: I do if I want to fix this. And it’s not just me. You have, too. You have, Jon. There is a whole world. And our world has been this apartment.
JON: My world has been you.
ANNA: And mine has been you.
JON: And that’s not enough?
ANNA: You are making this harder than it has to be.
JON: I don’t know how it could be any harder.
ANNA: You don’t have to take it so personally. It’s not about you.
JON: I don’t know how else to take it, Anna. You wish you never married me.
ANNA: That’s not true. I want to be married to you, Jon. I want that more than anything. I just...wish I could marry you know.
JON: But you didn’t. You married me then.
ANNA: I want to be young before I’m old, Jon. I’ve been old for a long time.
JON: And being young means “being” with some guy. Just “being” with him. No strings attached. Just to see what it’s like to have his “thing” in your mouth.
ANNA: I think it does. Or at least...being able to.

Bob Dylan’s “You’re a Big Girl Now”

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