A letter writer can’t stop thinking about the girlfriend left behind for a “shiny new job.“
I broke up with my girlfriend of three years last year to move across the country for a job opportunity. We had a fantastic, mutually satisfying relationship and had so much fun together. Even now, if I needed help of any kind, she’s the first person I’d want to call.
She took it really well when I told her last August. We agreed to stay together until the end, but I sort of closed off because our relationship had an expiration date, and we split in October. But we still kept in touch, and I even spent Christmas with her and her family.Now here I am in my shiny new job and apartment, and she’s all I think about.
She wasn’t in the wrong place or time; you put her there when you decided the long-shot job was more important to you than she was.
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