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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I discussed it with my boyfriend, and he was strictly against moving. But I couldn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He wasn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said he\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that he won\u2019t be doing the long-distance thing. And that I would need to choose between him and my promotion because he wasn\u2019t going to sit around and wait for me to achieve the goals I had set out for my career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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