First off, I won't disagree with how Jen describes the past few months. It's factually correct, and even leaves out details that would make me look bad. I do love her, and I'm mostly happy when we're together.
My concerns are that she tends not to understand what motivates me and makes me happy (or if/when she does, she tells me it's stupid). I absolutely love being in the mountains. Any time of year, whatever the conditions, whatever the activity, I'm happy to be in the mountains. I don't care about doing great things in my career; I just want something that's easy, keeps me interested, pays well, and gives me lots of time off to spend skiing and climbing.
The main reason I'm hesitant to jump back together with her is that we had several near-misses with breaking up during the time we were together. It's hard to remember why at this point in time, though I think it was mostly me being afraid to not see what else was out there, combined with the fact that given her career choice, she (we, if we're together then) will have to move somewhere we won't know until it's time to go, and there's a good chance it won't be near the mountains (although Jen is very flexible with what locations she'll go after, for my benefit). I also just started a job that, if I'm still there at that time (very likely), I'll have a month of paid vacation a year that I would have to give up.
I do love Jen, I'm just not sure if I can handle the forced move, along with risking the other things that caused us problems in the past.
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