Memories of life with my ex-boyfriend followed me around Stockholm. But day by day, it became easier <\/p>\n
What brought us hope and joy in 2023? Writers share their stories<\/a><\/p>\n I spent the early part of January this year in Sweden. This is not something I would generally recommend doing. The cold isn\u2019t the main thing, although it is certainly cold. The problem is the dark. Sweden is a beautiful country, but you wouldn\u2019t know it for half the year.<\/p>\n I lived in Stockholm<\/a> in 2017 and 2018, with my then boyfriend. I moved there with him and for him \u2013 he had got on a master\u2019s programme in the city and I was trying to be a writer while doing odd jobs, both things I could do in Sweden. I had never lived abroad and wanted to. At first, it was difficult. I had no friends, I missed home, and without colleagues or fellow students to mingle with, I was lonely.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Memories of life with my ex-boyfriend followed me around Stockholm. But day by day, it became easier What brought us hope and joy in 2023? Writers share their stories I spent the early part of January this year in Sweden. This is not something I would generally recommend doing. The cold isn\u2019t the main thing, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}