Aunt cries over niece's life choices
Dear Amy: My 21-year-old niece will be graduating from a well-known college in May.
She has already secured a great job in another state and has the potential to relocate to their different offices around the world. She is bright, beautiful and has a budding future ahead of her.
Here's the rub: She announced in January that she and her (off-and-on-again) high school sweetheart are getting married.
We were all shocked and hoped for a long engagement, but they decided it would happen in June, in the smallish city they grew up in.
He is a really nice guy and I like him, but he did not go to college and his aspiration in life is to own a used-car lot.
I'm worried that the disparity in aspirations might be an issue in the future. Plus, he is not planning on moving with her to the big city she'll be working in (what the heck?)
My niece is traveling to England right before her wedding.
My aging parents are in no shape to travel the eight hours to the wedding, so they won't be able to see their first grandchild married.
My father is unwell and may die before then, and then and my siblings and I would be planning a funeral!
In the space of a month, my niece will graduate from college, go abroad, get married, move and start a new job.
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