My boyfriend? You don’t know him, he goes to a different database.

We’re talking scary, imaginary, soul sucking intimate relationships this week: the mythology of incubi and succubi and the troubling trend of AI partners. How did these phenomena come to be and what are we to make of them?

Whether it’s a demon that comes creeping in the night or a chain of code designed to praise you endlessly, there are some romantic entanglements that just feel… unnatural.

Plus: what do do when a 10 year old demands you entertain her, how soon is too soon to pass out when the train AC shuts off, and how Alex Cooper played the pregnancy trump card before Alix Earle could clap back.