Need some advice

Well, has she asked and tried to make it so that you could go with her? maybe she needs some time away to think about what she wants in life/the relationship. Maybe she wants to see if you two belong together by seeing if she's still madly in love with you when you're not together.

Good luck.

If she needs to go to Europe to test her feel-o-meter, then your relationship is dead already.

Almost all women in their early 20's are the center of their own universe. Study women carefully before choosing one. You need to do a lot more research than you would before buying a new car. Do you have any idea how many more women than men there are in nursing school? Think man! Think!

KPA is right - depsite all the psychbabble about how women "mature" earlier than men (whatever the hell that means), I have found that pretty much across the board women in their 20s have a huge tendency towards selfishness. Even the best of them. I watched it in my three sisters, I see it in my coworkers and classmates and pretty much everywhere you look in today's society. It's excruciating to watch in healthcare because I'm there because I want to take care of patients, and my coworkers (I work in a primary care office during the day) couldn't care less about the patients. They just like walking around in scrubs carrying a stethoscope and thinking they're God's gift to the world because they can take blood pressures and decide whether or not patients get to see their doctors (except for Erin, if you're reading this...you rock).

Errm, all ranting aside, there's nothing wrong with giving her the opportunity to pursue something if she wants it. Be upfront with her though, because you shouldn't have to give up what you want either. If it's meant to be, things will work out. If she really cares about you, she'll work with you to come up with a plan where you both get what you want out of life and can still be together. She needs to know that you are serious about this and that you're thinking marriage someday....I made that mistake....dated a girl for two years before dropping the "m" word...she turned green and dumped me on the spot.