Relationships can be comforting, complicated and, sometimes, almost impossible to escape. One person may desperately want another to stay, while someone else may find themselves wishing a persistent presence would finally disappear.
Danny DeVito captured that peculiar contradiction with the kind of dark humour that has become closely associated with his career. Beneath the joke is a familiar question about attachment: why do we sometimes chase people who are leaving while struggling to let go of those who refuse to leave?
