Match Day

The next person to ask me some variation of the following three questions will find themselves with my 3" pointy stiletto heel of my Kenneth Cole New York pumps implanted in their skull:

1) Wow, you guys are going to be living several hours apart for several years. Don't you have any concept of how hard that will be?
2) Why isn't he staying in DC? If he really loved you, he would have stayed where you are. Are you sure you should be getting married?
3) What do you mean you're not dropping out of graduate school to move with him? A good wife would put her husband first and move with him.


In case you were wondering, my answers to the above questions:
1) Really? Seriously? I had NO IDEA. I thought it was going to be fantastic! I thought having a husband live in a different geographical region from me was going to be SO amazing that all my friends would be jealous and decide to live apart from their significant others! NO SHIT I'M AWARE THAT IT'S GOING TO BE HARD, YOU MORON. But thanks for reminding me and making sure I can't temporarily stick it in the back of my head and try to be happy that he matched at a program he really liked.
2) Or, maybe rather than not loving me enough, he just wasn't competitive enough. Maybe his board scores weren't good enough, and that Pass in surgery wasn't good enough, and his letters of recommendation weren't strong enough. Maybe if he had picked a less competitive field than radiology, he would have been able to stay here. But he was only offered one interview in radiology in the area and when he met with the program director, she encouraged him to rank other schools higher in his list. Which is why he did. Which is why he matched at his top choice, which would not be here. Or, maybe you're right and he totally doesn't love me enough. That could absolutely be it too.
3) No comment, just a middle finger extension.