Teenager enrages friends with her study-abroad decision: ‘[They] just seem jealous’
An 18-year-old isn’t letting her friends stop her future plans, and it’s tearing them apart.
She asked Reddit’s “Am I the A******? (AITA)” forum to weigh in. She got the chance to study abroad and plans to stay in the new country for life. Her boyfriend and friends oppose the idea. But she decided to hold her ground. Then, things exploded.
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“So I (18f) recently got an amazing opportunity to study abroad and I couldn’t be happier or more grateful for it,” she wrote. “I would be moving to an entirely different continent and I’ll be gone pretty much the rest of my life, meaning I want to make a life abroad and not get back to my country once I finish my degree. My family knows this and it’s completely okay with it however my friends and partner didn’t seem so thrilled, they said it could be dangerous to go on my own and that I’m practically burning bridges with them by getting to the other side of the world.
“At first I brushed it off as a completely justified concern and assured them we could still be friends and promised to visit often ( I also told my partner that I understood having a virtual relationship would be tough and not for everyone, and told him I would totally understand if he needed time to think about it or just break it up and remain friends).
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“But it was getting annoying, specially with my partner, he said I wasn’t even giving a chance to the life I could have with him in our home country and that I wasn’t really thinking of everyone that loved me and didn’t want me gone, my friends supported him and ganged up on me the past week, I was fed up at that point and told them they were a far cry from being the most important thing of my life and that this is the future I’ve always imagined for myself.”
“After that everyone got mad at me and my partner told me to never contact him again, the rest of my friends have been ghosting me. I know the phrasing wasn’t the best and they have a right to think I’m insensitive and to be mad at me, I also know an apology is in order for the way I expressed myself but I also think I did what was best for myself and honestly what I said was the complete truth. My mom thinks I should just board the plane and never spare them another thought but some of my cousins think I went too far and I was a big a**.”
Redditors felt the teenager was making the right choice.
“I agree with your mom… If they cared for you, they would want the best for you,” a person wrote.
“The friends and partner just seem jealous,” another added.
“Your mom is awesome. Get on the plane and live your best life!” a TikToker replied.
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