If you ever feel like a clown, I spend a year of my life trying to date someone who told me that we were exclusively dating but I hadn't yet met the bar for relationship, then after a whole year of being there for them no matter what, I finally concluded that they just weren't interested and moved on, which apparently upset them enough to be trashing me on social media for valentines day, 6 months later.
But on a positive note, it looks like I'll be getting offered tenure as a professor at the local clown college.