Me (25f) with my partner (28m) of over a year, can long distance work?

You don't sound on track and racing toward the finish line yet. It's not entirely clear what the finish line even is for you. You mention marriage and maybe returning home for years, and business success.

But you couldn't get a job for your degree in 2 years. Why would more schooling change that? You'll be older, with more school, but the same real world experience in the field.

Why would it be easy for him to pack up his life and go to your home for years? Why would it be easy for you to then return? That's very difficult.

But you must miss family, and home. It sounds like they're from eastern culture, and you've been westernized, probably from the internet and entertainment media, where you think individualism is more comfortable.

You had a parent leave you, and it's possible these types of problems have a genetic component, where part of the reason why you dyed your hair blonde and are hopping around is because of some mental instability.

You're in a tricky situation. People usually bypass these kinds of puzzles by staying home and following tradition. If they're born in NYC, then they stay there, and their uncle knows someone who puts in a good word, and they get the job. Their brothers help them move into a new apartment, they meet someone and bring them home for holidays, they get married, raise children, and it repeats. Life is easiest when you are born into an already functional support network.

What do you want? What does he want? How do you make it work? You have to have a good plan.

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