As I pulled open the double doors to the community center, it felt like I was the new kid in school again. We moved so many times growing up that I got used to being the new kid. I got good at making new friends and then saying goodbye a year or two later.
My best friend Kat said that’s where all my relationship problems stem from. She said I was too good at letting people go, that I just accepted it when they left, and I didn’t fight for them.
Speaking of relationship problems, I had plenty of them. Well, really just one big problem: I didn’t have a relationship! I was perpetually and depressingly single. I was in my mid-thirties with no romantic prospects. I’d had a handful of flings over the years, but they only lasted a few months. No one stuck around long enough for me to introduce
