Becoming An Occupational Therapist Essay

I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for almost seven years. We have had our ups and downs like all relationships but we’ve always been able to overcome our problems. However, our biggest challenge is when I moved to Florida for graduate school. Instead of us moving to Florida together, I decided that it was best that I moved by myself while he stayed in North Carolina. This way I could focus solely on school. We knew that me moving, communication would be a very important aspect of our relationship. Communication was great when school first started, I had a lot of extra time to call and talk for hours. Now since school has gotten a little more hectic, I feel like I don’t have time to spend on the phone to talk for hours because

He is three years older than me. Most people our age are becoming more serious in their relationships. Some are getting married and starting families. Many people our age are also in school trying to continue their education. I know that my boyfriend understands the importance of my education and completely supports me in following my goals of becoming an occupational therapist. While I am a full time student and working part-time, my boyfriend has a full-time job. I feel that since he does not have to work and go to school, he does not fully understand the pressure and stress of everything that I have to do. I have to manage my time with studying for classes around the times that I work. I also know that I need to study with a group in order to retain information better, so whenever I am not working I spend the rest of my time studying with classmates. I do this to help catch up on the time that I missed studying while I was working. I feel like since we are at that age where most of the people we know are starting to settle down and start families, he may be ready to do the same things. Since I am hundreds of miles away and as my time here progresses, his feelings of loneliness increases, so when I don’t call or text can be hard on

My boyfriend came to me with a problem he was having in our relationship about my lack of communication with him recently. His message to me was complete and clear,by letting me know what exactly I was doing that was making him feel ignored. He was also concise and cohesive by only sticking to the one topic and not bringing up past problems. He was even courteous in the way he confronted me about this problem. However. I was not courteous at all in my response to his feeling and felt that there was nothing that I could do to fix the problem and he should just accept it. This was the wrong way to deal with the problem at hand. I should have calmly listened to what he had to say before blowing things out of proportion right away. I also think that the tone in my voice when I responded back could have been different also. In order to fix this problem I agreed to try to better plan when I would call him and try not to take as long responding to his text messages. In the end, we needed to cohesively work together to come up with a solution to our communication