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Why relationship fears can sabotage once-in-a-lifetime opportunities

I turned down a Fulbright scholarship to Japan because my boyfriend at the time said long distance wouldn't work and we broke up six months later anyway.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love's temporary anxieties can convince us to abandon permanent possibilities, leaving us with neither.

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