u/Fiery_Soul_34857

He decided that he didn't want to wait longer to get married (we dated for 8ish months, and he had family pressure to get married soon...but I didn't wanna think about marriage till after ERAS apps/interviews next January). He also said he was getting frustrated by the fact that I was always busy with career things and didn't spend much time with him.

So he broke up with me and decided to get an arranged marriage that his family set up.

Meanwhile, I'm studying for Step 2 and am applying for a surgical subspeciality, which is absolutely draining. It's days like these when I wish I had stayed at the nice, cushy engineering job I had before med school and focused on my personal life more. Somehow, I'm fantasizing more and more these days about babies and being a SAHM who works part-time.

Edit: the worst part is that I did spend a lot of my free time with him throughout M3 year, even to the extent of sacrificing some shelf exam studying to be with him...

One of my M3 psych clerkship attendings was saying that of all the pathologies he treats, eating disorders (especially restrictive ones) are some of the most difficult. What makes them so uniquely challenging?

Any folks who did pain fellowship after psych? If so, what sort of procedures can you do? Can you do the spinal cord stimulator and kyphoplasty stuff?

For context, I'm a rising M4 who liked a lil bit of every rotation in 3rd year. But I loved spine anatomy + pain + psych + procedures/surgery + longitudinal patient relations the most. I actually loved surgery and psych a lot, but there ain't much overlap.