I spent six years writing a weekly budget travel column , and for most of that time, I was single. Most friends were sympathetic to my solo plight. But one, a married friend wishing to live vicariously through the life he imagined I led, was not. They almost never had. He stays in, writing or frantically planning the next day. The answer is complicated, of course. But when financial and power imbalances come into play, things get tricky β just as they do back home.
I learned my first lesson on this at age 23, after a three-day fling in a small city I was passing through in the Dominican Republic. I saw it as a fling, anyway. She saw it as something completely different. Streams of letters yes, letters, this was the s followed. You can hear the end of the story in the video. Both are meant as conversation starters, not definitive answers.
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