Will My Degree Make Me Outgrow You? Urban Therapy with Sun #161

We know that compatibility and communication are important for any relationship to be able to survive and be harmonious most of the time. People usually get with people that they can relate to on their level even if the person knows more than them or knows less than them. People who meet in college often wind up being together and often marrying. It's the same as people who meet at work or at clubs or organizations. They have ssomething in common that helps them to relate to each other. On some levels they are on the same level. What happens when one person raises their education level with the possibility of raising their social and professional level as well? 

When a person in a relationship goes back to school to further their education or to move up in their profession, do they change in ways that alienates them from the person that they are with? Do they try to raise their partner's status up to theirs or does something else often happen? Does the one in the relationship who is not going to school experience feelings of jealousy, alienation and being left behind? Are their feelings often vaild? 

Does the person in the relationship who goes back to school often leave their partner behind in some way by learning new things, interacting with different people and possibly becoming a little snooty? 

Can a little education ruin a once healthy relationship? What can be done to save it? 

Can the professional and the blue collar worker still make it as the gap widens between their educational backgrounds?

Does getting a degree usually mean that a person will change?