A boyfriend as an excuse to move? Does the destination make any difference? If you are so much used to move, why don't you dream about a place where to move to yourself, for yourself? Judging by your profile and the fact that you like being an expat, you seem like an independent woman. More, love is not much referred on your posts. Even relashionships based on love barely resist financial limitations.
Too bad phrasing for someone who is Irish and living in the US? English is a simple language. Even if you are not educated, if you were born in it, you catch up with it in an acceptable manner along the way...she is old enough to have done it. Her expectations are another hint...
RE: Girlfriends V a Guy