“Nah, it’s all right. My boyfriend thought I was an idiot.”
Oooh! Boyfriend! My brain gets hung up on the word, but I force myself to focus on what he’s saying instead of what he feels like against me now that I know he’s not straight.
“He said I was stupid for throwing away all those years of education. Wasting the opportunity of a prestigious job. He’s a lawyer, too, and he feels totally differently about it. He was so disgusted by my decision, he broke up with me.”
“What a jackass.” I slap my free hand over my mouth. “Sorry,” I mumble, my words mostly eaten by my mitten.
“Don’t be. He is a jackass.”
“I don’t have a judgmental boyfriend. In my case, it’s my parents.”
“Do you have a supportive boyfriend?”
I shake my head. “Nope. No boyfriend. Most guys think I’m too swishy. And I h
