Dear Queenie,
Last year my boyfriend from high school visited here for a few days and we got back together. A couple of months later he asked me to come visit him in the States. Then he came here again to see me.
We get along great and he has asked me to marry him. I would have to move to the States, because he has a good job there and doesn’t want to ruin his career by leaving. There is no work for him down here.
We are both almost 40 and neither of us has children or other obligations. I am ready to go, but my friends say I am being too hasty and should think about it longer.
Queenie, what do you think?—Ready to go
Dear Ready to go,
You are both presumably mature enough to know what you want in life. As you say there is nothing keeping you here, I see no reason why you should let your friends interfere with your plans, unless they know something about him that you should know but don’t, in which case they should tell you.
It’s your life, and you must be the one to decide.
