Jump to "While talking about my job" (it's bolded) to get to the actual gw story.
This actually started out as a relationship story elsewhere, then I got a bit carried away. Anyway, I'll leave these details in as I feel the back story provides a little more immersion.
So I recently got out of a four year relationship. It was with a girl I can say I was truly in love with, but was very oblivious to how much of our relationship's shortcomings that we ignored. She was very quiet around my friends, never wanted to try new things, didn't really have a cheery attitude as much as I wanted her to (and needed to be surrounded by). But she was a cool girl, pretty, sweet, and we made a lot of memories together. Time just went on and neither of us were aware that it was actually pretty boring and we were just sticking it out.
We eventually split up because as we became more mature we finally did discover we weren't right for each other.