Working on acceptance and forgiveness

[AntoniaB]

No hijack--it's all totally helpful and timely. My GF who visited the past few days and another GF who visited earlier last week are both in grad school, same discipline as me, and this whole topic came up with us outside this forum just chatting about our relationships with others. My GF with the healthiest relationship is with someone who is in her program and they understand one another's need to have space/independence, but the other GF is with a military guy about to return from a 6 month deployment who wants her to have babies. Now. They got married 8 months ago. She wants to be a student. She is properly worried about his homecoming...

I am continually surprised how universal these relationship problems are.

Oh and thanks dolphin for your supportive comments!