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TC's situation presents similar to mine - except we're both pharmacists instead of doctors.

My girlfriend and I met in pharmacy school and she was in the class ahead of me. After she graduated, she moved on over to D.C. to take an FDA job while I stayed in the Boston area for about 2 years to complete a pharmacy residency and work a bit (I'm with her now in the Baltimore/DC area). We did see each other every so often in those couple years, but it was tough being apart from her. My residency program had many like-minded individuals akin to myself and with all the conferences and outings we did, there was AMPLE opportunity to cheat.

But I never did. A big part of that is because my girlfriend (soon to be fiancé) and I were in pharm school together and saw each other daily for 3-4 good years before she graduated first. We built enough of a foundation where I didn't want to throw away all the time we spent together over some lousy drunken night in Vegas. And if I may add, it was quite easy for me to NOT cheat. I would always tell these women (some of them my co-residents) that I was seeing someone.

And I never ever regretted it.
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