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lil  ·  3520 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How and why did you become committed?

    What, to you, would be skills and issues that would fall into this?
For example, I'm committed to being, say, a teacher and a writer. I would want to find myself a location where I could be those things. I'm also committed to being a mother and a daughter, so I shouldn't go too far from the location where those roles play out.

I think, though, a bigger question might be this: How long should I give a location/job/relationship a chance before bailing out? Location especially, because bailing out of a location will also involve bailing out of the job and often the relationship in that place.

I once left a location I loved in order to bail out of a relationship. I didn't feel capable of just moving down the street - had to leave the city, province, territory.

Anyway, there are no universal answers to the questions you pose, but thinking and talking about it is probably useful.