I M24 think I should break up with my girlfriend F25

We started dating like 6 months ago but have been unofficially dating for a maybe 18 months. We’re going long distance and live on opposite sides of the EU we’ve probably spent 9 months together in that time between being in university and going back and forth for visits. For me that’s not the deal breaker, but it’s other things.

1)I have a business where I live, and I can work remote. It’ll be difficult with the time change and some practical elements, but I could probably make it work. 2) she insists that I have to move to her because she doesn’t like the country I live in. She’s only been here twice, but I guess she thinks it’s dirty and unsafe now (to be fair she’s not completely wrong and she grew up not too far from where I live now) 3) she wants me to move but within a year she thinks she might move somewhere else because she wants to be a pilot and the flight classes are cheaper there 4) she doesn’t want to have kids I’m pretty sure ever, which I didn’t either for a long time but as I’ve gotten older I think that’s all I want any more and I think it’s because this is my first time trusting someone enough to want that with them. She asked me if that was a deal breaker and I said I think yeah, and she said she thought she’d never want them but now is at a maybe. 5) she’s said some things about being okay with polygamy, but only consensual polygamy not cheating (this was more about threesomes) and that really doesn’t sit right with me

I just feel like she expects all the sacrifice to be on my end and I’m okay with giving her everything to make her happy, but it seems like Im supposed to entirely conform to what makes her happy. She’s really sweet and I love her, but I feel like if she really meant that she loves me she’d be willing to work more with me on some of this. Mind you, we’ve never talked about all this together, just as pieces. I think my solution is going to be to bring up all this and tell her I need some degree of certainty before I uproot my existence and make my dreams a bit more difficult to make her a bit more happy. I have wanted to move to where she lives since before I met her for quality of life reasons, it’s just not very practical. I don’t know, I feel like if she actually loved me she’d be open to more compromise. I mean she does nice things for me, but when it comes to the big things she wants her way. And I’m really sad where I am now, I’ve hated where I live for a while and I’m afraid if I don’t get checked for depression (irregardless of what happens with her). I don’t know, it’s really hard being a man so much is expected of me and all I want is someone to care about me and I thought she gave me that but I’m not sure any more. What do you guys think I should do?

Posted Dec 10, 2025, 2:55 AM UTC

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