No, it's not a paradigm, I'm physically intolerant of lactose.

She was angry.  Like want-to-slip-dairy-in-my-dinner angry.  Sometimes I didn't realize how vulnerable being lactose intolerant was, but it was.  All it took was a little and I could feel bloated for hours.  My clothes would fit weird.  I'd feel weird, and I swear even my shoes would look odd.  To think she'd do this to the man that she claimed to like?  What kind of sign was this?  Was I missing something?

Later that day in a meeting while trying my very best to pay attention to my text messaging I heard this phrase; Partner Management.  We apparently weren't doing it so great - whatever that meant - and we needed to improve - I didn't know what that meant either.  But as soon as I was able to regain focus and tell my friend that I was positive that Batman could win a battle against Mr. America, even INSIDE of America, I started thinking...  Maybe if my issue with Alli wasn't just the fact that she was prone to threats that involved not taking my life, but ruining it.  Maybe I wasn't properly doing partner management in my relationship in addition to not doing partner management well at my job. 

Could this be true?  Could Alli not simply be evil, but mis-managed?