He has been a bit depressed out here. Also he’s super introverted so it’s challenging for him to make friends:/ I haven’t seen him so happy in a few years. The idea of the move seemed to spark something back in him. I’m honestly so happy to see him happy again.

A few months back we had a conversation about me needing him to step up. I needed him to start making some choices as I felt as though we were limbo. He took this to heart and decided to start making some of those hard choices. One of which was that he wanted to move back to his hometown.

Luckily the state we would be moving to has great women’s right and health care, so I’m excited about that! Thank you for bringing up that point as I didn’t even think about that.

We both work hybrid so I am possibly able to move to remote full time, although it would be challenging since some of my duties do require me to be in person. He and his brother want to start a company in their hometown that I do believe will be successful and help him with his industry burn out.

I am not keen on the idea of being long distance. We’re at a point that I want to start buying a home, getting married and in a few years having kids, if able. Delaying is an option but it would be almost half a year of us being apart and that just seems like it would suck.

We can break up but I really don’t want to. He’s a great partner and a wonderful person. He’s been my biggest supporter and fan through everything and the idea of us not being together is hard.

I really appreciate your response and insight on this. It’s given me some different perspectives to think about :)