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When one partner struggles to fit into the other's established community

My husband and I moved back to my hometown five years ago and he's never really fit in with my old friends and family and now he's started making comments about wanting to move somewhere 'neutral' and I feel torn between the life I built here and the partnership I want to protect.

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