She Accepted A Scholarship In Another State, But Her Boyfriend Isn’t Happy That This Means They Can’t Live Together
This 21-year-old woman is in a serious relationship with her boyfriend, 23.
She and her boyfriend are together every single night, and they have talked about wanting to get married as soon as they can.
However, she needs to have brain surgery, and she wants to wait to get married until after the surgery. Understandably, the cost of the surgery will be high, so she wants to make sure she is still on her parents’ health insurance when she has the surgery.
Throughout some of her college years, she was an RA in the dorms so that she could better afford her room and board and schooling. This allowed her to save up enough money to rent an apartment.
“While waiting for me to finish working as an RA, my boyfriend lived in an apartment with an old friend who turned out to be in love with him, which caused a lot of drama and arguments. I resented my boyfriend for this (he knew she was into him and just wasn’t worried because he never found her attractive), and we had many big discussions about this,” she said.
Eventually, her boyfriend got sick of the way his roommate was acting, so they ended their friendship. After that, she and her boyfriend talked constantly about living together someday.
Later, her boyfriend received a job offer for a teaching position in a different city, but he turned it down and went with a different offer so that he could stay in the area, and that way, they could move in together.
She and her boyfriend had found a house to live in, were in the process of buying furniture and daydreaming about the food they’d be able to cook. They were thrilled at the thought of being able to be together all the time.
“Then, I got an offer. A well-known neuroscientist from another university invited me to spend the summer and fall of my senior year working in her lab,” she explained.
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“Not only would I get paid and get my name on a paper, but I would also receive a year of free housing, a full meal plan, free tuition, free flights to the world’s biggest neuroscience conference to present my work, the opportunity to attend journal clubs and other events at the graduate level, a letter of recommendation, and also a vacation in the later fall, all funded by the program.”
“I also get to work with equipment and methods that we don’t have access to at my university, which is super cool.”
Obviously, listing this experience on her resume would help her in her future professional endeavors, especially now that she’s in the application process for graduate school.
Of course, this was an offer that she couldn’t refuse. While her boyfriend is happy for her and supports what she wants to do with her life, he is upset that this means they won’t be able to live together as soon as they’d hoped.
“He had expressed to me that he is sad that I would change plans last-minute and leave him, especially after being dramatic about his roommate and getting him excited about a life together in a shared apartment,” she continued.
Despite the fact that she now has to push back their plans to move in together, she will be done with this program and return to the city where she and her boyfriend currently live in the spring. So, she won’t be apart from her boyfriend for forever.
But even though she was offered this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, she feels guilty, and like she’s only thinking about herself for accepting the offer and ruining her plans to move in with her boyfriend.
Do you think she made the right decision to accept this scholarship offer?
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