Follow my heart and sacrifice my career?

Hi ladies,

Wondering if anyone can offer some advice or has ever been in a similar situation. I have been in a long distance relationship for 4 years. I am a Canadian nursing student (with two years left of school) and he is a professional soccer player living in Mexico (he is American). Recently he asked my parents their blessing to marry. I love him a lot and he is definitely the man for me and I always saw myself having kids with him and marrying him. However now we’re at that point where we know we have to make a decision regarding the next steps in our relationship. I really don’t want to be engaged for 2 years in another country away from him, but I also don’t want to give up school and risk regretting it my whole life. My heart says to move and my brain tells me not to give up school. I know I would regret it forever if I lost him. Like having the nursing degree wouldn’t mean anything if I was miserable you know? Has anyone ever been in a similar situation and had to give something up? Did you always regret it? I visit him once every three months (between semesters) for about 2 weeks. And realistically if I did graduate and we were still together I probably wouldn’t use the degree for a couple years while I have and raise kids, but I would want it as something to fall back on or to go back to work after my kids are grown.

He makes about 6 times what I would make as a nurse so money isn’t a big factor in my decision. It’s more giving up something that I worked 1.5 years to achieve. We agreed that we can’t do long distance anymore so it really is him or school.