You can take it first if you'd like.

For me, it wasn't necessarily a conscious decision.

I think I was always just interested in pursuing what I was doing.

And I certainly had romantic partners along the way.

But often my experience was when I left Michigan, so when it was time for grad school, and especially when I moved to Texas, then it started to become challenging because then it was, was this person coming with me? So as I started to move around the country, Those relationships became thrust into a more serious light right away because that was just the nature of my journey as a graduate student.

And then, of course, my first job, I went from Texas to California.

So again, a huge shift.

It feels super weird.