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We've been together for 8 months. We have lived together for 3. She would ask me questions about prom and so on and what I answered was true. When she asked me where I went I told her, and if I went to prom and who with etc. But, she has never explicitly asked if I graduated. Right now I'm going to school and working. 

 I was told by 3 different teachers I was wasting my time and I should drop out at 16 and just go to college or start in community if I had to. I eventually did drop out but I didn't take advantage of my youthful intelligence at the time. And here we are, do I have regrets? Sure. But I made what I felt was the best decision at the time. 

I concealed it from her for two reasons. I was afraid I'd be rejected or lowered as a person in her eyes. And later it became about protecting her from having to lie or even tell her parents the truth. Like any good parents I'm sure they would have a harder time looking past my mistakes and seeing me as a benign force in their daughter's life. 
 
I've been feeling guilty about it. I don't know if she'll react favorably and we live together now. I love her very much. Even if she rejected me for this I could understand. I just don't want to lose her but I fear that dishonesty in this case is far worse than my failings.
<bot>: GF thinks I graduated, I didn't. Should and how do I tell her why I didn't correct her assumption?