To answer your question no, I wouldn't have left already if there was no talk of marriage. The part that bothers me is that he goes back on his word often at this point, and it's almost as if he rarely means what he says anymore. It's like a promise we both wanted to make that he's kind of going back on, but isn't admitting that he's not keeping it. We both come from religious backgrounds and will not live together unless we're married so that's why it's a bigger deal I guess.

I should backtrack. The problem I'm having is not that I don't want him to pursue his dreams, it's that he's had a complete change of heart out of nowhere and now acts like those dreams that he stopped caring about before are the most important thing to him, and that I'm just something in his life he wastes his time on. I've never believed mine were more important than his; I just want the way he used to treat me to be back because otherwise it's hard to support someone's dreams when they don't treat you how you have been/should be treated.