Having recently moved from New York to Boston, I am faced with the novelty of a new city — both the exciting and the lonely aspects of that experience. I left an environment I had grown comfortable in, one in which I enjoyed many friends and a long-standing relationship with a wonderful man. Before I left, Scott and I discussed the possibility of marriage, but it didn’t feel like the appropriate time to enter into that kind of commitment. And, in all honesty, I suppose I wasn’t willing to sacrifice the job offer which had required my relocation. So Scott and I maintain a long-distance relationship which has worked out nicely.

Living in a new city has given me the opportunity to explore facets of my own personality I had previously been too embarrassed to expose. An associate at work had suggested to me,... Read More