Hi everyone!
My boyfriend never said he wasn't okay with me going away to school. He always says I should do what I feel is the best way. I know he supports me and my education.
when I think what is the best way, I get stuck. We're working on problems in the relationship because of me, and the distance is going to make it much harder to work on those problems. I feel he would like me to be home and not be so far away because it would help with our problems and how we work on it. Which is why I would like to be able to stay in my hometown, but it's kinda late to apply to another program in my hometown so that's another reason why I'm stuck. I don't want to wait another year to get into master's, and I want to get a master degree, no matter where I go for school. I'm not particularly fond with the school I chose, since I chose it to be near him. So it didn't matter where I go really.
But we talked about it last night, and he says he wants me to do what I think is best. I kept asking him what does he think is best. So we looked at the pros and cons of each path. It's basically down to time vs. home. If I do the 1-year master, then we'll be able to accelerate our time to enter our choice of schooling after my master. If I choose to stay home and do 2 year, then he has to push his own schooling back 1 year, which he doesn't want to do. So we decided for me to do the original plan so we can speed up our schooling. I feel more at ease continuing this plan since he's said he's okay with it. I still know he wants me to be near, and he doesn't want to move with me. But this is what we have, so we gotta take it and take a leap together. I'm glad I talked it out with him, and I'm so thankful for all his efforts.