I was teaching virtue and knowledge while lying on the side

By Katherine Moses, Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Mississippi

I had been with my boyfriend, Tyler, for almost 10 years when we finally agreed that we should get engaged and married. Up until then, our respective jobs – mine as an academic, his as a fisherman – had forced us to endure long stretches apart.

But I had been offered a permanent academic job teaching philosophy in Florida. Tyler said he was willing to start a business there. It seemed like the beginning of a new, stable chapter of our lives.

We moved before he officially proposed, however. Then he went to Canada for seasonal work.

In our new house in Florida,…

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