oops, I mistranslated / wrote too quickly; the young man goes to study,forgetting/forsaking the woman he left behind

There are loads of songs of women forsaken, sometimes when men go off to sea or off to war, I didnt know there were many about men going off to study. Maybe not so much in English (all that comes to mind immediately is Lang a Growing/The Bonny Boy : "father oh father, if you see fit, we'll send my love to college for another year yet, And all around his college cap we'll bind a ribbon blue, to let the ladies know that he's married"

I can imagine it would be a shock if you didnt know your lost love had become a priest, to go into church and recognise him saying mass. And it could feel strange even if you did know.