Throwaway account for this. Also, 22 year old female.

I am an extremely hard working college student - physics major, work 35 hours a week, VP of a school club. I am dating someone who I met off of a sugar daddy site. He is three years older than me, we have been dating for a year, are monogamous, and did not sleep together until 4 months in. I DO NOT give sexual favors in exchange for money. I do not expect anything financial from him and don't find it any more sugar daddyish than my previous relationships. He understands that I work because I'm not comfortable completely relying on someone (which oddly as a sugar daddy he supports and likes that I feel that way), but he also understands that I do not have the money to go on lavish vacations or out to Operas, fancy dates, etc, all the time. So he is wonderful and takes me all over the world with him and pays for all of our dates.

Why did I look for a sugar daddy in the first place? I am attracted to ambitious men and I believe in surrounding myself with people I want to be like (career wise, obviously I don't want to be a sugar momma, pay for a prostitute, whatever people generally thing of sugar daddy's, which is why many of the men on that site would not work for me.). One of the best things I have gotten from my partner is networking. He is helping me build a career, learn skills, and find internships.

Am I embarrassed by our relationship? No. I go out in public with him and have a very normal relationship with him. I genuinely enjoy my time with him and have feelings for him. No one ever questions our relationship, but I don't advertise that it started out of a sugar daddy site, that I was looking for someone to help me make my way up in the world. I worry that men in my future will look down on me if I tell them or think I'm a gold digger.