My Relationship

My boyfriends name is Justin. He was born and raised in Mastic, New York. I met him through his cousin whom I went to high school with. Everyone wanted to date Katarina's cousin. She would bring him to high school parties and girls would flock to his "bad boy charm". I was the winner, he fell in love with me. For a while he was my prize. After high school our relationship evovled and through plenty of scandals we managed to stay together. He went on to build his sprinkler business and I went to college. Our differences began to be and still are the major cause of our conflicts. Our differing values, morals, and family life are huge. Where Justin is from violence, backstabbing and theft among others things occur between so-called friends. He has never had anyone real in his life besides me. His parents are great but they have taught him to get by and in order to do so , you do what you have to do. You should of seen the look on my moms face when he told her his business tactics, which I won't give away.. I get angry with his lack of caring for people other then myself and his mother. I am now in my third year of college and our relationship has done a 360. In high school I looked up to him. Now I feel like he feels that he is becoming inferior to me. I try not to correct him anymore when his vocabulary is totally off, but making our relationship work has become a job. I love him but I really do not know how we made it this far. Is class reproduction to blame? Maybe a little. Perhaps the fact that he was raised completely different from me and hangs around people who my mom would shun defiantly has an impact. In sociological thinking I would be in a relationship "outside of my group". However I do not think it is the root to our problems.