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User Profile: Izems
Izems September 28th, 2015

Hello, my name is Andrew and I am currently suffering from horrible depression. I don't know where to start and I don't feel very good so hopefully this doesn't come out too jumbled. My fiancée and I broke up over Christmas, and after 3 or 4 months we got back together. I started at a new college and had a hard time attending class. I failed my calculus class (although I know the subject well) and barely passed my other class. I work late nights, until 2am in the morning, at McDonalds. I am a manager in training. My fiancée and I aren't getting along very well. She wants to move out of state for college and I can't do that. We have tried to compromise and go to another school in the state but every other day she seems resentful of it and wants to go somewhere else. Her parents are moving next year to Germany and we have a very rocky relationship. I lied to my parents and they think I currently have a 4.0 GPA. I dont know if I love my fiancée anymore. Well no, I love her but I dont know if we are right for each other. I am under a lot of pressure from my family to wait to get married, although they support my engagement. My fiancée wants nothing less than to get married right after she turns 18 (next summer) but she agreed to wait if we went to a different school. I currently have ring payments for the next 6 months and her dress payment. She has been telling me to forget the dress and to try to get a refund. Also she wants me to cancel our current arrangements for the venue. Between work and my fiancée and family I am so stressed out I cannot focus on college. Work keeps me up late and when I get home I just want to talk to my friend in Arizona (I am in Washington) and to play games with him. I want to move to Arizona and attend college with him, but my parents would never pay for out of state tuition. It looks like the tuition is about 6-10k more per year than my current college, so through loans and scholarships I could probably pay the difference and work to pay for my housing and food. My fiancée cant understand why I am ok going to Arizona but not the south where she wants to go. I just know my friend in Arizona and it looks like a nice school. I cant find myself able to get up to attend my calculus and physics classes because they are so easy and the teachers suck. On top of that my classes are so spread out and I live so far away I have to sit around and do nothing fun until my computer science class. I just dont know if I should break up with my fiancée and let her move to Germany or to the south and for me to go to Arizona with my friend. My older brother lives in seattle and he always pushes me to go to UW but I would never be able to get into a school like that and also afford to live in Seattle working as a Manager at McDonalds :/ I guess I am just stressed from worries of money and also my family being so "i told you so" if I break up and also not sure if I should break up or to keep trying to work on my problems with her. College is suffering from my depression and work is depressing because Im not happy so I get irritated super easily.

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User Profile: discreetAcres6234
discreetAcres6234 September 28th, 2015

Hello Andrew. I am sorry to hear that you are feeling this way.

From my point of view it sounds to me as if your fianceé is the main cause of this depression as she is asking a lot from you and expecting you to do everything to suit her. I just want to say that you can't live your life trying to make others happy, it only makes you miserable and that's not what you deserve. You may love her but when two people can't agree on their future plans together without someone being upset or miserable with the choice, it's not good for either of you. You'll both end up resenting each other either way.

It sounds like you and your friend in Arizona have a good bond. It also sounds like he makes you happy. I understand that money is a big issue but I would encourage you to follow the path that makes you happiest.

You deserve happiness, success, and people who support you in your pursuit for happiness. You are the only one in charge of your life, make it count for something.

I hope you will be okay and I wish you loads of love.

- DA

User Profile: NewRomantic677
NewRomantic677 September 30th, 2015

you are so brave for posting this.

just a random potato here to tell you how awesome you are, you lovely person.

-hugs!!-