She Flunked Out Of College And Has Kept This A Secret From Everyone In Her Life, Including Her Boyfriend
A 26-year-old woman never did end up completing college, as she describes herself as a “serial college flunkee.”
She has tried to go to community college and she has also tried to go to a bigger college to complete a 4-year degree without success.
Her college “track record” is nothing but “abysmal.” She did have a few decent semesters where she was at the top of her class, but that was pretty short-lived.
She has had more semesters where she simply failed out of classes until she figured out how to just withdraw.
“Imagine an absurd amount of withdrawals on a transcript, times that by three, and you’ll have me,” she explained.
“And then throw a few more on as a garnish. I am truly ashamed of this, even if my prose says otherwise.”
“Particularly because I’m bright enough to do better, have had professors who wanted to help me when I gave up on myself, and have wasted so much of my own money.”
Although she has previously come up with a lot of excuses as to why she never could complete college, she now accepts complete and utter accountability for her failure to do so.
The thing is, she’s keeping this a big secret from everyone in her life; her parents don’t know, her friends don’t know, and even her boyfriend whom she’s been dating for 8 months is in the dark.
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She has tried her best to work hard at her job and make the rest of her life seem like she has nothing to hide, yet she feels awful for especially keeping it a secret from her parents.
“No one who knows me would suspect me of this,” she said. “I’m a straight edge, by the book, goodie-two-shoes, a “sweetheart”, and by most people’s metrics, and (seemingly) intelligent young woman.”
Now, her boyfriend is from a very successful family and he’s doing great in his own career too. He’s supportive, sensitive, kind, and caring, but she doesn’t think he will accept her for not completing college if she lets him in on her big secret.
She’s falling in love with him and her greatest fear is losing him if she does let him know the truth.
“A part of me wants him to fall in love with me too,” she continued. “But would that make him finding out my secret an easier or harder pill to swallow?”
“When he asks me how school is going, I would say fine, and that’s so disgustingly deceitful. When in a relationship do you unveil your most unsavory transgressions? I desperately want to take this to the grave, but that feels wrong if I want a long relationship with him.”
She feels guilty not coming clean to her boyfriend, but she really does not want to tell him at all and risk him leaving her over it.
Do you think she should tell her boyfriend the truth?
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