<p>So I'm really wrestling with myself here over what's going to happen between my girlfriend and I next year
Here is a little info:
-attend different schools but live in same town
-dated for around 8 months
-I was accepted into one of the top schools in the country and we're going to be about a 24 hours drive from each other
-we've talked about it and realize it would be really hard to try to keep dating but haven't decided yet if we want to give it a try so i'm pretty worried/sad because i like her a lot</p>
<p>does anyone have any advice on what to do? any comments are appreciated</p>
<p>Long distance relationships DO work, but it takes TWO, and a lot of work. Don’t say that you’ll try if you don’t mean it. Make sure that you both mean it if you say you want to do it. If not, then… you know.</p>
<p>Unless you SERIOUSLY can’t live without knowing what’s gonna happen next year, I’d say just enjoy your senior year and your relationship as it is right now… A lot can change over time. I’d just make the most of your time we only have today right? Oh and what college are you planning to attend?</p>
<p>Try it. Better to go and have it not work than to break it off and always wonder what could have happened. Plus, it’s another 7 months before you leave for school. Anything could happen between now and then. </p>
<p>PS- My bf and I are going to separate colleges and we’re stronger than ever. Living apart forces you to communicate better and it will either make you a much stronger couple or break you. And if it breaks you then it wasn’t meant to be.</p>
<p>^ Don’t do that. You will both be preoccupied by what could have happened and you won’t allow yourselves to see other people without feeling guilty.</p>
<p>FWIW- Son, now 21, kept relationship going with HS GF, long distance across the country. They will be celebrating their 4th year in February and they both will graduate their respective colleges in May.
They both did very well in college, were very involved with their college friends and activities but were able to see each other several times a year. The also spent the same semester abroad in the same foreign country. :)</p>
<p>They are planning the next stage of their lives together after graduation, but they haven’t let us (parents) in on all of the details yet. Statistically, long distance relationships don’t last, but it can work if both people want it.</p>
<p>my sister’s dated her boyfriend long distance basically all throughout college and they make it work…but i would honestly only do that, if you were 100% in love with her and you see a really really serious future with her. otherwise, i think you’ll miss out on a lot of opportunities in college</p>
<p>This is what sucks about being in a relationship senior year of high school. No matter what happens next year, whether my boyfriend and I stay together or not, I’m going to spend much of my first few months at college thinking about him – either moping around at the fact that we broke up, or obsessively texting him while he’s at his school and I’m at mine. I don’t want to be that girl, but having devoted so much time to our relationship, it’s pretty much inevitable.</p>
we only have today right? Oh and what college are you planning to attend?</p>
bad idea…</p>