I couldn't afford to move out when my boyfriend and I broke up. We're still roommates a year later because it makes works for us.

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"You're still living with him?" my friend prodded during one of our weekly coffee meet-ups. Like most of my friends, she's still puzzled about why I live with my ex even though we broke up. For the umpteenth time, she offers me one of her spare couches to crash on for a month as I figure "everything out."