He is everything I could have wished for in a boyfriend. He has a lovely family, a hard working job and literally does everything a boyfriend should do and has raised the bar if there was ever a day to part. My mother as of recent has been whispering in my ear to leave him because I am graduating soon. Saying “oh you need to experience life and not be tied down”. I am not “tied down” I know that for a fact.
(3) I feel insane because I know this will work out. I am not going to let her stop me. But part me aches that I don’t know where this is coming from. I genuinely ask her why I should break up and she just “you have such an amazing career coming up, you don’t want him to question your every move”. And which I say to that is “he wouldn’t.” She has been trying to draw parallels to her failed marriage as well but even I know better than to date a man like that.
My man has been through thick and thin with me. When it came to going to court against my father, living by myself in a different state and navigating my career and my future. It pains me to think about not talking to him after everything we have been through. I get told by her that I am being dramatic and that I have my rose colored glasses on. I just can’t take her seriously as well drawing the parallels to my ex-father.
Obv I don’t know ur relationship w ur bf nor w ur mom/or ur mom as an individual; but it seems she’s projecting her exp onto ur own, which who knows for mult possible different reasons she could be doing that, but it does seem that’s how her thought process is broadcast onto ur life
Correct me if I’m wrong, but a small part of ur mom’s point(s) that she brings up is that she thinks you should “exp. life” and “not be tied down” which, I’m sure you could confidently say, as you did, that ur not feeling tied down in any way, but do you feel as tho you and ur partner have been tested and that ur love/bond to one another has gone thru any testing in any way?
I could be mistaking this question but we haven’t had any “arguments”, we mostly just talk it out and try to see where each of us is coming from. We have rough moments by either work stress or life stress but we work through it together (not in a creepy co-dependent way) We are currently long distance, we have done long distance except for the few months I am back in his town but the long distance doesn’t bother us because we both communicate and FaceTime at the end of the day.