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Laurence Fishburne's Dance Dance Revolution
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this is an extremely committed relationship between adults
[quote name="sdroa jists"]Before I start, we are both in our 20s who have been together for over 1 year, now. Long distance; together for 3 months, apart for 10, together for the last 3, now apart again (I go to school elsewhere). It is important to stress, this is an extremely committed relationship between adults. I am in college, and know what I want to do with my life. On schedule to graduate in 2 years with an International Relations degree that will VERY likely lead to me leaving my rural US town. My boyfriend, however, doesn't have the same drive. He was in school, left for 2 years, trying to get back in this fall... but he doesn't really seem to know what he wants to do with his life. One day, he's going to write for TV, the next he is going for a business degree, then teaching... He is extraordinarily charismatic and well-suited to any one of these positions, but he lacks the commitment necessary to complete any one of them. Try as I might to support him in any one of them, his goals change every month. I'm not going to break-up with him over going to school. But I am having a really hard time getting him to realize that I need him to start doing something. He has been out of high school for 5 years. He still has no career in mind. I was understanding for the first year of our relationship (things happen at different paces for everyone), but if he does NOT return to school this semester, he will not be graduating at the same time I will, and thus I will be jetting off to Africa, or New York, or Milan without him. Our relationship is hard enough from 4 hours away right now; time zones are going to be almost impossible. How to I aid his great ambition, but give it some focus, without seeming bossy? I frankly have become very tired with all of the ideas and talk, and need action. Our future together hangs in the balance of him getting his shit together.[/quote]