“He’s Not Moving Away From Me,” She Said. I Packed My Bags and Left Them Both Behind

around us. “What is this place?”

“This is where I live now,” I said calmly.

Linda’s face went through a remarkable transformation—disbelief, confusion, and then a kind of panicked calculation as she tried to reconcile what she was seeing with what she’d assumed about my circumstances.

“You can’t afford this,” she said flatly. “Not on a corporate salary.continue reading …