Reply To: How can I make a move?

I grew up in a tiny town where everyone is nosy. I lived there briefly after I moved back after college and every move I made was literally the talk of the town (the old ladies in town.) my boyfriend and I were dissected. We were asked to everyone’s thanksgiving dinners. I’m not kidding. I get it, if it’s like that.

Guess what I did? I moved.

We moved to a small “city” of 90,000. When we broke up a few years later, he was so awkward and weird about it as soon as a job came up in the city I’d been eyeing, I went. You don’t have to live with your ex in your backyard.