My girlfriend is demanding that I give up my opportunity to go to a prestigious master's

degree program in Europe simply because she doesn't want to be alone in our home country.

She even went as far as to threaten breaking up with me if I took this opportunity and left her

in our home country and at this point I seriously don't know what to do. So my girlfriend and I have

been dating for three years now and we really love each other. We have met and begun dating during

our college graduation year in 2020. I had always planned to pursue a degree abroad after

graduation but my girlfriend says no to long distance relationships. For context, my girlfriend

and I are from a poorer country and life here is very hard. Our degree doesn't have much weight

on international job markets and today we are both working full-time jobs but none of us are happy

with our life here in our home country. We are also very underpaid. She's an internal auditor

for a big international cigarette company but gets paid about $250 US dollars a month and I

get pretty much the same salary for being a consultant at a boutique firm. We are both unhappy

of our current situation and that's why I want to go study abroad to be able to access better

opportunities. My girlfriend is a very lovely person with almost no close friends and most of the

time she feels depressed when she's left alone. When I first introduced my plans to her of going

abroad one year after graduation, she was totally opposed to going into a long distance

relationship. She believes I am the only one that can make her happy and be able to bear living with.

In addition, going abroad to study had never been a part of her plans. Although she complained

all the time about our living conditions, it seems to me that she was fine with it for the most part.

She has always believed that there has to be other ways to improve our living condition

without leaving our home country which is an idea that I totally disagree with as our country is

literally falling apart. All indicators have been worsening during the past 50 years. Years

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