To: My fantasies about the future don’t have my girlfriend in them and it feels so bad to feel so hopeful.
Me: Good luck with your interview, hope you get your new job. Time to move on and leave your girlfriend behind and as you have suggested, live on your own for a bit and decide if that is what you want to do, or maybe have another girlfriend, but she in her home and you in yours.
I charge a token rent to my lodger, plus expenses for running costs and she is not entitled, as my border, to anything I own and I don’t let her contribute to any of my purchases and if something goes “bad”, I can boot her out – and she knows that, so she keeps on the good side of me, all of the time – I am a Male.
Company, no strings, Win/Win
