So........
My girlfriend just got back from a 2 week ecology class trip to Uganda. Apparently she saw a lot of fucked up shit, poverty, environmental injustices. I heard about it from her mother about a week ago and she came back today. So I expected she'd be different somehow.
Well, the experiences made her do a lot of thinking, and she concluded that while we are best of friends, she won't be able to spend the rest of her life with me if I'm sitting in a university as an historian for the rest of my life while she spends hers traveling the world and being an environmental and social activist.
It sounds tough but the logic is so clear to see that it should be very easy to accept. We've always been very different people, and now we no longer have to inhibit ourselves in an attempt to compromise ourselves.
Oh yeah, that will make two ex-girlfriends I'll be sharing a house with until at least August. I'll be taking the spare room in the house, and I don't think it will be too much a problem living together still.