There are various parts of small-town life in the Midwest that really stood out to city transplants...
"I do harbor some resentment. He makes less because he works his dream job and I gave up mine to work a corporate job."
"Expressing one's feelings may not lead to the outcome you want, but it's better to speak about things now than to hold it in and have it explode 10 times worse."
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"Sometimes, I feel like his opinions are 'outdated,' but it's because he grew up in a different time than me, so I have learned to be more understanding of where he is coming from because things changed A LOT between his childhood/teen years and mine."
"To me, it reads: 'I don't think the things you say are important enough to remember.'"
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"I do harbor some resentment. He makes less because he works his dream job and I gave up mine to work a corporate job."
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"Sometimes, I feel like his opinions are 'outdated,' but it's because he grew up in a different time than me, so I have learned to be more understanding of where he is coming from because things changed A LOT between his childhood/teen years and mine."
There are various parts of small-town life in the Midwest that really stood out to city transplants...
"He admitted to me that the reason why he never took our kids anywhere, or went out with us, was because they were all girls. I hadn't provided him with a 'son and heir.'"
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