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Anonymous wrote:If this was a breakup mechanism, how did BF think it would end? OP would say - well, hunting in Maine and never heard from him again, guess that's the end of that!?!
Yeah, I also don't think this is a breakup mechanism. There are a lot of signs that the boyfriend is probably into some sketchy activities. I would not be surprised if he's just passed out in the living room of someone's double wide, sleeping off the latest binge or whatever. He'll pull himself together and skulk back into her life.
Can one even make a living wage "hauling cows"? I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary once that indicated most people working low-wage jobs associated with slaughterhouses and feedlots are recent immigrants (legal and otherwise) and people with other things in their profiles/backgrounds that would make other work difficult to obtain. Apparently the employers aren't very fastidious about looking into who is doing the work because you have to just take on whoever is willing to do such low-paying, disgusting labor anyway. (I also read a lot of my daughter's pro-vegan books, so it could have been from those).