If I could offer a young person advice about anything it would be do NOT make life decisions based on your boyfriend or girlfriend. Girls especially. Do NOT stay close to home for him, do not skip opportunities to travel or study abroad, do not pick a safe college to be with him. Expand your horizons. Broaden your own life. He is not the world.
I want everyone who disagrees with this post to come back to me in a couple years and tell me how that shit worked out.
Note: if your relationship can’t survive a semester or a year apart, it’s probably not going to survive the rest of your life.
Also, if your SO can’t be supportive of your education/career goals, they’re probably not the right person for you.
