I wouldn’t worry too much about it. It sounds like he is very shy and inexperienced. It’s probably just excitement/nerves. You can ask if he likes hugging or if he’d prefer something else. If he says he likes it, I wouldn’t bring it up anymore.

You deserve a relationship that does not negatively impact your mental well-being.

Question is: Who woke her for her shift?

Yep, Mini Coopers are quite popular in my neighborhood. They used to be a dream car for me, but now they are just as big as everything else.

I prefer smaller cars. Every once in a while I browse what’s available in new cars. Every time there are fewer and fewer options in the compact/sub compact category. I guess I’m just going to hope nothing ever happens to my Civic (which is honestly larger than I’d wish) because I don’t know what I’d replace it with.

Of course giant vehicles as a share of sales is going to increase, when that’s 75%+ of what is available to buy.

That was my first thought, reading the article. There’s no way he was just jogging. What kind of jogger takes a cart with them? I’ve never seen something like that, and I see a lot of joggers in my area.

You won’t start healing until you make a clean break. Stop talking to her. Stop meeting up. Just stop.

Of course you still have feelings and want her back. It hasn’t been enough time to process and grieve the end of your relationship. You can’t just jump from a 7 year relationship to friendship with the snap of your fingers. Give it 6 months to a year before you start talking. Maybe even longer.

The next level of this is to calculate the amount you would need to have saved to support the cost in retirement. E.g. if you have a $60 annual cost, you need to save $1500 just to cover it for the rest of your life (following the 25x rule for retirement savings).