Time flies I suppose. Still have DACA (though parents have GCs now—no change in their life and no plans to naturalize which does, unfortunately, make me resentful of them), which is tough. However, I was able to save up a lot of money while working for a few years, and I’m now in med school with a full ride. As long as I keep doing my day to day, I’ll get my MD. However, let’s see if I end up actually being able to go to residency or practice.

Maybe the closest situation to what you faced was a series of dates I had with this guy early this year. He was absolutely obsessed with me and mostly a gentleman. The ultimate simp. However, I was not attracted to him and no matter what I did, there was no way for me to develop a sense of respect and attraction to him. In hindsight, I wonder if I had stayed with him, he would’ve proposed after Trump’s election and I would be filing paperwork to adjust my status right now. I’m single still and most of the guys I go for are emotionally unavailable /not into me anyway (such is the state of a gay man). I imagine that it might have been better to be unhappy in a relationship with a green card compared to unhappily single/dating scum and with no green card. C’est la vie I guess.

Also grammar doesn’t matter. I was a snotty nosed teenager/20 year old. And ChatGPT exists for all that crap.