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I feel guilty about breaking up with my boyfriend…help

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    Lucy
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    My boyfriend and I have been long distance for 3 years prior to me moving abroad last summer. We really do love eachother, he’s sweet, kind, funny, he takes care of me, and we have similar future plans. However, something tells me I shouldn’t stay with him. 1. I would like to go back to my country and start my studies this fall, and he cannot legally stay there with me unless we get married, which I am far too young to do (20). Now the other points are more issues that I can’t quite deal with. He is not taking care of himself é ever since he moved to this said country from his country. He drinks so much, roughly 4-5 beers a day, he got very fat, refuses to go to the doctor, eats very disgustingly. And quite frankly I’m the polar opposite. I eat mostly healthily, I try to work out, I am slender and take care of myself. I just don’t see this working out for these reasons. It’s not because I am shallow, I honestly would stay but I need to begin my studies, as I did not like the country we are living in and would like to return to mine. He is such an amazing person, but he doesn’t seem to want to change this very bad habits. I feel so bad, because he is alone here, and I jut don’t see any other woman taking care of him as I did, he has been with me the entirety of the time he has been here even if it has been long distance. I feel an ache in me thinking of leaving him here and potentially breaking up with him. I have tried numerous times to consult him about these issues, he won’t go to the doctor, keeps eating the crappy foods, and won’t stop drinking, nothing is going to change, basically. I cannot stay here and not grow as a person due to his bad habits. Did I make the right decision?

    #142753
    Anonymous
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    Dear Lucy:

    I think you did make the right decision. Being in the relationship with him, as you have been, did not motivate him to eat better, exercise and avoid excessive drinking, did it? So.. you were not helpful to him. I suppose when you end the relationship, he will continue his unhealthy habits. Or, maybe he will change them and get better.

    If your affect on him was good: if he practiced good habits while in a relationship with you, and you were afraid that without you, he would abandon those good habits, then maybe there would have been a reasoning behind guilt on your part, but as is… it is likely to be the same for him, and who knows, maybe better.

    Take care of yourself- keep your healthy habits and make healthy choices for you.

    anita

     

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    Anonymous
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