Originally Posted by
allert
If you're serious about becoming a professional pilot, you'll need to forget about a girlfreid or friends for a year or two because to even finish flight training requires a lot of dedication and effort. Girlfriends are always a distraction because they will never really understand what it takes, and so you'll either start but not finish because they'll complain you're not spending enough time with them (you'll know about this when doing ATPL theory) or you'll start, barely finish but still be stuck. Because as a freshly minted pilot yearning for experience you'll need to be able to move anywhere for that first flying job. A girlfriend, as supportive as she might be, will still make it hard for you to make a decision and you'll eventually just wait for that perfect dream airline job close to home and close to the girlfriend which will probably never materialize.
You need to really want this and be ready to sacrifice everything, otherwise it's not for you.