How to “Get Some Space” From Your Boyfriend When You Both Work From Home And Are On Top Of Each Other 24/7

There used to be fifty ways to leave your lover — now, not so much

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Yeah, when I met Aron I figured we’d have a couple of fun months and then we’d take a break and then maybe have another go at it. I was “on the rebound”, see, so it’s not like that ever works out so great. I’ve never entered a relationship with such low expectations.

Little did I know…

• I didn’t know that Aron would move in with me after two weeks because he couldn’t “afford” his rent anymore. “Um, OK,” I said because I’m not a mean person. “You can crash here for a while.”

Aron’s idea of “crashing” at my place was getting a full-blown U-Haul truck and moving in all kinds of crappy shit, like his Himalayan salt lamp (I threw that and most of the other shit in the trash).

• I didn’t know that Aron didn’t really know what “polyamory” was when I agreed to have a relationship but stipulated that it be polyamorous from the beginning. In the past, see, I had kind of sprung my polyamorous needs on my SOs after we were already going out, and they always got hurt. Aron knew from the get-go.