u/SpecialPractice5595

My boyfriend (18M) is considering breaking up with me (16F) over my trip to Greece

As the title suggests my boyfriend and I have been arguing about my summer plans and I am in need of advice.
For context: I was born in another country than the one I live in now, Ive only been living here for almost 6 years and my boyfriend was born here. My friends from my home country have their own friendgroups and every time i go visit (about twice a year) we all hang out together and i get to know their friends too. A few years ago (2022) I met my best friend at the time’s friends and one of them was a guy, i’ll call him Mike for the sake of the story. Since we met Mike and I started hanging out more often and I introduced him to other friends of mine and we slowly became our own friendgroup and we were all inseparable until eventually we grew up and while im still close to all of them we dont get together like we used to. Maybe important to mention Mike is the type of guy that only has girl friends and acts gay yk? Besides that me and Mike stopped talking at one point but about 2 years ago we started talking again and we often play videogames together and have a lot in common so we have become very close friends. A few probably important things i should mention before bringing up the conflict between me and my boyfriend:

  1. Me and Mike have been planning for years to go to study in the Netherlands together
  2. One time my boyfriend asked me to play videogames with him and i declined since he didnt want to play what i wanted and i had already planned to play with Mike.
  3. We have been together for about 5 months

these points are topics on which me and my boyfriend have argued over which are probably reasons on why he doesnt like my guy friend Mike.

Back to the original story: I was talking to my parents recently and asking what the plans are for this summer and when we are going back to my home country and we usually also go to another country for vacation with my
cousins but this time we are going at a different time in summer than previous years so i started texting all of my friends trying to figure out if our plans line up. Another point is that my parents decided not to go to another country this year because my cousins and my brother are going somewhere else so we wont get together to go somewhere. This made me really upset since the best part of summer is the beach for me and i also was telling my friends about that and this is the point where Mike asked me if i want to go to Greece with him and his parents because they have a private place all to themselves and they have a free already paid for place for another person. I know his family and his knows mine and my parents have always been strict on me going on vacation without them but i figured id ask. I asked my mother about her opinion today and long story short she agreed but still has to talk to my father and Mikes parents of course. So as you can imagine i have been arguing with my boyfriend about this and i definitely understand his side that it makes him uncomfortable and that he might not be Mikes biggest fan but I dont know if i would let down such opportunity. I am scared that he will break up with me but if its that easy for him to leave me over this does he even love me? He also keeps bringing up how his friends would react he says things like “they would laugh at me” but what am i supposed to do? He doesnt have to tell everyone my business. It would really suck to lose him over this but what can I do? Ive asked him if he would want to talk to Mike maybe get to know him but he just says it would make him feel worse.

Any advice would be appreciated

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u/SpecialPractice5595 — 2 days ago