#george glass moment tbh. i imagine tom meeting shiv at a christmas party and she asks about exes

[tomwambsgans]

i'm not saying i'm married to this hc but it's just occurred to me as pretty plausible that "mary" is not, in fact, a real woman that tom has dated and who broke his heart, but rather a story that tom made up so as to appear to have had past experience with women.

i wouldn't even say that this notion necessarily means he has no experience - i can absolutely imagine tom just deeply exaggerating and embellishing on some high school or even middle/elementary school girlfriend, making it sound like it lasted much longer than it did, that it was much more serious than it was, and that the heartbreak from its end was a reasonable excuse to have not been in any real relationships in the meantime. like, even just the name mary... that's so typical it's almost suspicious, isn't it?