it's 2019 and a lot has happened
Gosh it’s been a while; I don’t know where to begin. I graduated college and had been working as a network engineer over night for a year and a half. Just this past March I had gotten a new job that was 3 hours away from home and required me to relocate; I think it was time to leave the nest. While my mom didn’t want me to leave (no mother wants her babies to go) she was also ready, in a sense. I moved 3 hours away to a new area, where I only knew ONE other person (my friend’s father who got me the job, and also worked for the same company). At this time, my boyfriend and I had been on some rocks, but we were finally getting back to where we once were. He had just graduated a year ago and was still looking for jobs in his major. We were just talking about how there would be more opportunity outside of our hometown, and how he’d need to look elsewhere or stay stagnant at his labor-intensive job. I got so excited at the idea of him moving in and us living together, I started looking fo...