judojamesg
Just consider you do not take this long and expensive route and you brake up suddenly ! Or you did not try this route and you are doing a job which doesn't make you happy !
Beleive me, if you are unhappy after some time you will be making the other person unhappy, too.
So, if this is "the job" for you which you wanna do, then do it.
I experienced exactly the same story and I was a design engineer with a good salary! Very hard work; every day at job. At night you have job in your mind. Now, I am very happy with my wife and she is,too. But as other people say, you might not be able to be at home for birthdays, cristmas, first walk/talk. But just consider that you are not alone. Someone has to do this job and everyjob has its own difficulties.
Hope it helped,
Guclu