CONTEXT: I am 17 years old and have been with this amazing woman for 2 years now. We met through a mutual friend and have been pretty inseparable since. We have had no hiccups except for one time where an ex texted her but she told him to F off since she was dating me. I graduated early in my junior year of school to pursue the AF. She is a junior and will most likely graduate this year as a junior or take another year. I have deleted social media to focus on this as well as taking extra programs to became an electrician as a backup plan. She still has social media and posts from what I’ve seen on her end
I have been planning on going to the Air Force for a while now and have been telling her for about 8 months that im adamant about going.( for my mother to help her with immigration and to build a career in it).
She is very goal driven and has her eyes set on going to a university here in California for child psychology and dance.
We have talked about what life would be like when I leave for 4 years and have both been saying that we will last and if it’s meant to be then we won’t break up.
This is where I need help. I have been taking college classes and CLEP exams to get paid more in the AIR FORCE and have began to see us not relating a lot, especially on our day to day activities. She will rant about something that happened at her school while my days are mostly just studying, working out, and going to work. I love and appreciate her as well as her family who have given me support through bad times. It’s just been like that his for 2 weeks and I don’t see it getting any better especially as I plan to take an extra class next semester to finalize my credits before I ship out.
I’m sure distance is going to play a role in our relationship but im stuck.
TL;DR should I stay with my girlfriend while I go into the Air Force or break it off clean