My boyfriend and I have been living together for the last two years and share our rent. Recently, an opportunity opened up at work that I couldn’t resist. It was for a major promotion that could put my career on the path that I wanted it to be. But it would require me to move to another city.

I discussed it with my boyfriend, and he was strictly against moving. But I couldn’t let this opportunity slip through my fingers, so I applied anyway. It was a chance for me to land my dream job, to build the career I spent most of my life working for.

At the beginning of this week, my boss informed me that I got the promotion. So I sat down with my boyfriend again, thinking he might change his mind now that I actually had the job. Once again, he refused to move, saying his own work and his friends were in our current city.

He wasn’t willing to give all that up for me to have a chance at achieving my goals. He said that he had to focus on his own career and that he couldn’t put his life aside because I was looking for something better. So I suggested we try having a long-distance relationship until he was ready to relocate.

He said he’d think about it, and we left it at that. But yesterday I got an email from him that said he was planning on proposing to me the following week. He had everything set up, but I went and ruined his entire plan with my insistence on taking this job.

He said that he won’t be doing the long-distance thing. And that I would need to choose between him and my promotion because he wasn’t going to sit around and wait for me to achieve the goals I had set out for my career.

So, Bright Side, what should I do? Do I follow my dreams? Or do I stay with the man I dedicated some years of my life to?