Best Friend concerns...

Originally Posted by TemariPC31

She's going to a mini-ivy league school to be a private school teacher.

Bit harsh, wouldn't you say? Not to put it out there or anything, but I go to a full-blown one, switched from math & comp. sci to symbolic systems, yet I am considering being a teacher when I graduate. Saying what you have denigrades teachers and the decisions that a few of my friends have made and one that I might make myself. So yeah, be careful when you say these things...

Though that's really moot in the face of everything else she's doing. But ah well, what can you do. Other than give her another perspective to look at her life with, one she can use when she realizes that she's been mucking about. And be there to be the support system when she does. I guess you can mention it a couple of times to her, try and convince her that there is at least a problem or items of concern that she should be looking at, but if she won't listen, she won't listen. And life goes on.

But I must agree with above comments, a priori nothing's bad with dating an older guy - I wouldn't be around if my mom thought so. But the way I see it, it's a bit much to change career plans over a guy who she hasn't been dating for that long. It's usually a warning sign when you see someone take a relationship that seriously in such a short span of time.

Jam it back in, in the dark.