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In many ways I was lucky. Admittedly my boss had been forced to let me go, as he had put it, but losing my job was no big deal. If anything, I was relieved at being saved the stress of having to make a decision about whether to pack it in or soldier on. Ben had encouraged me to keep going and I had stuck at it, mainly to please him. Less easy to shrug off was my boyfriend’s decision to walk out, once he realised I would be at home all day. I wasn’t sure exactly what he did, but he worked online from the kitchen table.
If I’m honest, I think we both realised our relationship hit a rough patch once I lost my job. We had got along well enough before that, when we were going out every weekend, and enjoying a few drinks with friends on weekday evenings. Life had been a blast for us, and we
