Hi Guys, My girlfriend (22) and I (23) have known each other \~9 years, and have been together for 4 years now. We recently butted heads about me visiting my home country for too long. One of my good friends is visiting home from the US for the first time in 6 years, and we planned a 7-day guys road trip at the start of December (only possible time for everyone). My plan was to spend time with my family and catch up with the home I missed for the next few weeks after the trip. I go home maybe only once a year and therefore only get to see my parents and brother during this time. Each visit has gotten progressively shorter with the last being just less than 2 weeks. I planned this given that my girlfriend is planning to travel in early January with her friends for around 2 weeks. The idea was since she is leaving anyway, I would just stay at home with my family until she returns from travel, and I would fly back whenever she does. This would give me a good 3-4 weeks to at with my family. I have been much more conscious that I am getting older and so are my parents, I would really like to spend more time with them while I can. However, she tells me she is scared and doesn’t want to stay alone for a month. Recently she had an incident with a homeless/drunk person that kept asking her questions and wanted to get her number. She was a bit shaken from this incident, and I have occasionally walked her to work when I am able to make it a bit less scary for her. She also decided to start getting off at a different train stop to work. Since then, things have gotten better. She says she can’t control what I do and doesn’t want to have to ask me for my time to stay with her, but it is obvious she is against me staying in my home country for that long. She expects me to fly back after maybe 2 weeks (giving me 1 week for the trip, and 1 week with my family). While I understand why she would feel scared staying here by herself, she would be leaving to travel \~ 3weeks after I return anyway leaving me by myself here rather than at home with my family. I want to stress I don’t think that this is just because she doesn’t want me to go home for that long, but rather she just doesn’t want to be by herself. She has offered to talk with her managers to see if she can fly with me to my home country and work from the office there, but this is uncertain. Even in this scenario, she would only be willing & able to stay an extra week before we would have to go back to our usual home. I am having a hard time understanding if she is being too dependent on me, or if I am wrong for wanting to visit my family for longer over staying with my girlfriend because she doesn’t want to be alone for that long. TLDR: Girlfriend is scared to be alone. I want to stay longer with my family in my home country since she’ll be away traveling soon after anyway. Am I wrong for wanting more family time, or is she being too dependent?