I moved to the same city as my long-distance boyfriend. Everyone expected us to move in together, but we didn't.

Despite moving to the same city as my long-distance boyfriend, we still live apart. Isabella Dallas After a year of long distance, I moved to the same city as my boyfriend but chose to live separately. I love spending time with him, but I wanted to make new friends in Chicago without relying on him. We don't share an apartment, but spend nearly every day together while building separate lives. A year after meeting my boyfriend in college at San Diego State University, we entered the scary territory of a long-distance relationship when he moved to Illinois for his Ph.D. program, and I stayed in California. Whenever I visited him, I would stay for weeks at a time, and we very quickly got good at pretending we lived together: walking around Aldi, making popcorn for movie nights, and working on our laptops at a local coffee shop.