Dear Shree, I am 20 years old and my boyfriend is 21. We are graduating college soon, and we have been dating for a year. He has been looking for a job in marketing, and I told him my dream is to move to Mumbai from Pune where we live now and pursue a career in advertising. He worked extremely hard to apply to jobs there, and we found out last week that he got an excellent position in Mumbai. It feels as if my dreams are coming true. We decided that we should share an apartment next year while he works and I study. I spoke to my very strict and control-freak father about it yesterday, and he was screaming, telling me that I am prohibited from moving in with my boyfriend. I expressed to him that my desire to move to Mumbai is my own, and my boyfriend is just along for the ride. I did not base my decision on a boy; in fact, he chose this location to make me happy. My dad told me that he would cut me off financially if I decided to go out from Pune. He has ruined my childhood because he has been the biggest control freak, demanding every little thing to be done as he wishes or he would cut my funds. I have inheritance money and my question is how I should go about making my dad understand this better and how I can make him approve? He is pissed now, and even though finances will be my responsibility, I would like to keep my relationship with my dad. My boyfriend is also hurt because he doesn’t want my dad to hate him forever. How would you go about this?