Caller 📞 Sessions! Career Vs Love: "He Moved For My Dream And Now Says It's 'My Turn'" - Ep 333
Dear Shandy
Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine
4.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Callers are back in session! Today we're joined by lovely Elaine. She's on the exciting precipice of transitioning from grad school to career, but she feels a sense of obligation to her longtime boyfriend who's followed her to support her dreams. When it comes to the sacrifices we make for a relationship, is there such a thing as quid pro quo? Listen on for the Shandy take!
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0:00 - Welcome To Caller Elaine!
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| 0:00.0 | What happens to a dream deferred? Does it shrivel like a raisin in the sun? |
| 0:08.8 | Dear Shandy |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome back to Dear Shandy listeners. Hello, Andy. Hello. How are you today? Doing good. Good. |
| 0:18.2 | Yeah, we got some collars lined up. Yeah, good is the day when it's |
| 0:22.3 | caller day. Well said. And today we are joined by a lovely caller named Elaine. Elaine, thank you |
| 0:28.3 | so much for joining us. Hello. Hi, thank you. Thanks for having me. Do you mind giving us |
| 0:34.2 | your age, the ages of anyone in question and your story, please? Yes. So I am 30, |
| 0:42.4 | and I am calling in about my partner who is just shy of being an adult. He's 35. And I am calling because we've kind of hit a conundrum. |
| 0:59.5 | We live in a small town on the East Coast, and we are trying to figure out where we're wanting to move next. |
| 1:11.6 | And... figure out where we're wanting to move next. And I get it. |
| 1:16.6 | Take a second. |
| 1:18.6 | She's me. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.6 | We're trying to figure out where we want to move next. |
| 1:24.6 | And he has not been happy living in this town. And we've been here |
| 1:30.1 | for five years so that I can pursue graduate school. And in thinking about the next steps for us, |
| 1:40.8 | he's wanting to kind of give me a list of places and I can choose from that list and then |
| 1:48.7 | apply to jobs from that list and then we can make our next step. He is really excited about the next |
| 2:00.7 | step and he's like wanting to um have a kid, |
| 2:04.8 | buy a house like all pretty soon and feeling like in order to take those steps, he wants to know |
| 2:13.0 | where we're going to be, which I find honestly pretty understandable. But as I am in grad school, |
| 2:23.8 | there's not, there's like not a lot of jobs in my area. And I want to be open to choosing the best job for me, regardless of location, |
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