So I’m an 18 year old HS senior and I have a girlfriend who’s 17 years old and she’s a junior. Next year I’ll be a college freshman and she’ll be a senior and the college isn’t too far away. Anyway, with this, I was wondering, would it be weird for us to continue or relationship if I am college freshman and she is a HS senior?
It’s not weird, but it is hard. You must have heard the phrases ‘breaksgiving’ or ‘turkey drop’ by now.
There are a lot of obvious reasons: it’s an age and stage in which people change a lot. Maintaining a relationship at a distance is never easy- it takes work on both sides. Both of you will be very absorbed in very different processes- that are important, and warrent your focus: you learning to knit into your new environment, and she will be both figuring out what new environment she wants and letting go of her old one.
So go forward, play it out and see: sometimes HS romances survey through college. Just pay attention and be honest- with yourself and with her.
Not odd, but unlikely to survive.
It is very had to continue a relationship because you will be spending so much more time with other college students. You can have breakfast and dinner with these new people everyday. You are both supposed to grow. Be kind and straight forward.
A lot of people come into college in relationships. They don’t tend to last long.
I dated the same person from freshman year of high school through my sophomore year of college. We outlasted the vast majority of other high school relationships around here.
On the other hand, I just went to a friend’s wedding a few months ago who has been with her partner since junior year of high school (they’re both a few years out of undergrad now). So some do survive.
It can be quite difficult, not impossible though. It is difficult to carry a relationship from high school into college. Another thing is distance and communication. Long distance relationships require a lot of work and one person cannot do all of it, it takes two to work it out. You both will be in different places when you go off to college and meeting new people and being in a whole different environment. All and all, it is up to you. If you want to continue your relationship through college then I say go for it. Some of them do survives and others not so much.