Moving out of state and in with boyfriend =? Options

[atiajay]

Hello everyone I am very new to this, I've never done anything like this before so I'm not sure how it works but here I go...

Names Atina and I'm about to turn 20 next month, I currently live in South Florida and work for a management company. I graduated highschool last year in May, and I have a scholarship which covers full tuition in-sate or out of state. I was attending Nova University for a couple of months but only because I wanted to please my parents by not moving away to where I have always wanted to go to school..which is NY... I stopped going to school about 6 months ago because I wasnt happy, I want to study criminal Justice and this medical thing i was going for was not me at all... That being said here is my issue =/:

I recently went to NY in december for 2 weeks I hadn't been there in over 5 years, and well lets just say as soon as I got there I remembered exactly why I always dreamed of living there. All my hopes and dreams that I had given up to make my parents happy, came back and I made a choice that day. When I came back to Florida I got all my stuff together and quickly applied for John Jay and I got accepted. Of course I was more than just happy being that this is a really good school. I told my parents about it not too long ago, but of course that didnt go too well. I am hispanic and well my mother (mainly) has always been very very over protective an strict, which in fact has helped me become the mature young adult that I am. I have always followed her instructions and so far I haven't had any troubles, but I've never been happy. For the very first time in my life I feel happy about what I am going to do with it, I feel sure that I will be okay, Im not stupid and I know that I am going to have a rocky road ahead of me, but I want to go through with this, i believe that in life we must go through things to learn frm them, we cant always be kept in a glass box and expect that we're let free we'll know exactly what to do... The other situation that follows this one is that well I won't be living by myself... see I've known this guy my entire life, and well our story is pretty intresting. He was my first crush my first kiss well my first everything but he lives up there, so we always kept our relationship more in a "friend" type thing, but everytime he'd come down to fl to visit or I went up there we always connected, and we always kept in touch by phone. Well we decided to really work at a relationship and so far everything is great, Ive known the guy for practically 18 years and I'm not some crazy girl in love thats going to ruin her life for a guy, but I'm pretty sure when I brake the news that I will be moving in with him to my parents, thats exactly what they are going to think. Both of us have planned the move pretty much to perfection, he has money saved up and I do too, he goes to college for free and I do too, we found an apartment which he went to look at a couple of days ago and its perfect. I already have my plane ticket of April 9th, and I am more than excited...My parents aren't stupid and they have an idea that im moving there not only for school but also to be with him, but I havent confirmed anything to them yet... thats where I need some advice... being that legally they can't stop me, and that I already have my plane ticket and everything is already arranged, how can I talk to them without beating around the bush, I want to be very clear and honest with them, I want them to hear it all frm me and not from anyone else later (i do have a lot of family up there)... I dn not want to be disrespectful, but I think its about time I take my life into my own hands and if I mess up then so be it, at least I'll know what happened and not have to wonder for the rest of my life what would have happened had i gone through with it... please if any one has any advice I'd greatly appreciate it...

Thank you so much and again I"m new at this so forgive me if I wrote a book lol

[saintsaens]

You're going to get dumped.