I’ve been dating my boyfriend for over two years now. I’m a college student and for the most part he’s been supportive of my dreams. My family likes him but I come from a family of education so they don’t like the idea that he isn’t in school or doesn’t really have any goals.
I try to encourage him to have ambition and he treats me really well.
I am very ambitious and come from an upper middle class environment but still have always been taught to work for stuff.
I am a writer and I have made it very clear to him that it’s my passion and it’s what I was put on earth to do. I’ve been writing stories ever since I was like 5 for fun. I mainly talk about with him how much I love writing lol. The career I want to go into is writing based and I’ve been taking some big steps towards it.
My boyfriend has told me before that I inspire him for him to get a better job. He works as a maintenance technician which is fine for right now, but I haven’t seen him take steps to change that especially when he always says he wants to be rich one day.
So recently I’ve told him and sent a few stories to him that I’ve written for my creative writing classes. One of them was like 13 pages long and I had a lot of fun writing it.
We’ve had conversations about him not knowing what he was passionate about and how my passion is writing. He said he’s never been good at writing.
Over the past few days, he said he wanted to take up writing and see if he could write a story also to see if he could do it too. I encouraged him to journal but he kept saying he didn’t know if the story was going to be good or not but said he did it and has been writing outside to give him inspiration. He said he shared it with a few people close to him who liked it.
I’m trying to encourage him but I also feel like he’s kind of taking my passion and trying to make it his own. Am I being a brat or should I just support him?
I try to encourage him to have ambition and he treats me really well.
I am very ambitious and come from an upper middle class environment but still have always been taught to work for stuff.
I am a writer and I have made it very clear to him that it’s my passion and it’s what I was put on earth to do. I’ve been writing stories ever since I was like 5 for fun. I mainly talk about with him how much I love writing lol. The career I want to go into is writing based and I’ve been taking some big steps towards it.
My boyfriend has told me before that I inspire him for him to get a better job. He works as a maintenance technician which is fine for right now, but I haven’t seen him take steps to change that especially when he always says he wants to be rich one day.
So recently I’ve told him and sent a few stories to him that I’ve written for my creative writing classes. One of them was like 13 pages long and I had a lot of fun writing it.
We’ve had conversations about him not knowing what he was passionate about and how my passion is writing. He said he’s never been good at writing.
Over the past few days, he said he wanted to take up writing and see if he could write a story also to see if he could do it too. I encouraged him to journal but he kept saying he didn’t know if the story was going to be good or not but said he did it and has been writing outside to give him inspiration. He said he shared it with a few people close to him who liked it.
I’m trying to encourage him but I also feel like he’s kind of taking my passion and trying to make it his own. Am I being a brat or should I just support him?
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Support him 100%. It’s not a competition, it’s an opportunity for you to draw closer together as a couple, and for him to find something he’s actually passionate about.
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Support him, what if he's doing it to get closer to you, instead of seeing it as a competition against your own boyfriend why can't you just see it as something y'all can do together, unless he steals your writings and stories and puts his name on it, then it's not possible to steal someone's passion, now you have something to relate with him and something y'all can spend more time doing together, now y'all can for example write a book together.