Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : My boyfriend of four years is trying to decide if he wants to enlist in the Marines. He says it’s for our future, and I know there’s a lot of benefits, but I feel like we can’t build a life if he’s not here. He says that deployments could be a year long if not more. That’s a LONG time. We currently live with his family and have settled down here. I can’t pay rent anywhere else right now so essentially I’d be living with his family while he’s in the military. 

I’ll miss him like crazy. I know I’m supposed to be supportive and not hold him back. He says he doesn’t want to be 50 and look back and regret not doing something meaningful. I get that, I do. He’s always needed to strive for greatness while I’m just content with our little life. Telling him no would mean keeping him from reaching his full potential. If I tell him to go go for it, though, he won’t just be signing his soul away for 4-6 years- he’ll be selling mine too. 

