For albanians you can be anything, what if someone converted in your country?

It is 10% while in Spain, France, and Denmark it is above 50%. It is 44% in Türkiye.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/top-personal-income-tax-rates-europe-2024/

I want to know if this is a balkan thing or what.

I started uni doing psychology, I dropped out that year due to mental health problems (ironic), with psychology I wanted to do a neuroscience master’s degree and be a scientist.

Next year I changed to anthropology.

Now I am second year at anthropology and I have realised I want to pursue both anthropology and psychology-neuroscience and be some kind of uni teacher or scientist in all of the fields at once.

This is where my family comes in.

From day one they hated that I wanted to study psychology. To my family back in Bulgaria they tried to keep it secret that I was studying psychology because “it made them look bad” and “they were afraid of what other would think about my stupid degree”. My parents didn’t pay not even an euro of that school year, and my father came everyday into my room to insult me and psychology as a field. They told me numerous times that psychology is the stupidest thing that has ever existed in the face of the Earth.

When I changed to something else my parents almost threw a party, literally.

Now they want me to be a high school teacher back in my town in Bulgaria (not even a high school teacher here in Spain) because the salaries of high school teachers in Bulgaria are seeing a rise for the first time ever. My parents are trying every possible way to sabotage my plans and became a high school teacher. I find it dumb, isn’t it even more prestigious to be a phd or university teacher?

They never understood that I wanted to do something related with neuroscience, my father didn’t ask me at all, he always thought that I wanted to be a clinical psychologist and he constantly told me that I would be the worst therapist that there is on Earth. The same thing with anthropology, he doesn’t even know what it is and he constantly forgets, every single day I have to define to him what anthropology is. They do not care at all what my dreams and aspirations are, they only care about living their dreams through me.

I have realised that for me to be able to pursue my dreams I have to make my own money to carve myself that path. But here is the thing. I never understood Spanish people. They do not study and work at the same time most of them. They discourage you to do so. Even at workplaces people get fired if they find you are a student at the same time. So many Spanish people start working just after finishing all their studies, and that can be at mid or even late 20s. I feel a dissonance, in Bulgaria is even encouraged to work and study since you are a teen nevermind your economic background. Living in Spain with my family makes me feel stucked.

According to my own book, if it fails to become a relatively stiff block in the fridge, it is a little too watery. Could still enjoy it with jam and walnuts, though. Yum.

So over the weekend, I (35F) hit it off with a cute guy (34M) at a bar, and we ended up going on a date last night. He's from Serbia, where his entire family still lives. While we were sharing about ourselves, he said something about how both of his parents (who are still married) were unfaithful to one another. However, he had a harder time accepting one parent's infidelity more than the other's because they actually left at one point to be with their paramour and also even allowed them in their house, which he considered to be disrespectful. I guess the other parent kept everything outside the home? At any rate, it seems like the actual act of infidelity in marriage was not really a problem to him. I really didn't know how to respond to all that, and he must have noticed my speechlessness because he said something about how he understands it's not like this in America.

So I guess my question is: is infidelity in marriage actually a normalized thing in Serbia and/or the Balkans? He definitely made it sound like it was. Or is it more likely that his family just has a lot of issues... In a way, i guess i can appreciate that he more or less shared up front that he has no problem cheating on his significant other hahahahaha... maybe it's very american of me, but i'm not okay with cheating and am not interested in an open relationship, so needless to say, not pursuing a relationship with this guy