‘I worry I’m really going to regret it’: Student gets offered a scholarship to Harvard, but girlfriend states it threatens their relationship so he considers missing his opportunity – FAIL Blog

I think there can be an element of competitiveness at play in this story; sometimes it’s not easy to confront the fact that our partners are more successful than we are, and we tend to sabotage relationships because of that. It could be that, or it could be that she is simply too egocentric and would rather have a boyfriend nearby even if that means he will not follow his dreams. All those things can be true at once, and I still think staying for a relationship is the wrong option. The same relationship can end a few years down the line for another reason, and he wouldn’t have either the relationship or the education. Again, this is the way I think about love. I think we should love in a way that makes everyone in the relationship grow individually, but there might be people who think about relationships in another way I don’t quite understand. What do you think is happening here?