Moving up, moving out, moving on...?

It happens all the time in high school, some one's older and some one's younger. While the older is moving on to a whole new chapter of their life, the younger is still in high school. But, where do you two stand regarding your relationship? Do you stay together and see how it goes? Or do you have a mutual break up at the end of the summer?

It's hard seeing someone go, especially when you know you have to let them go in order to move on. If your bf/gf goes to college and you break up it's tough, but you have to try to put everything in perspective. Depending on what school they go to they're bound to meet thousands of new people. It's a whole different part of your life, it'd be difficult to stay together because of that. College is so much more different then high school and many don't realise until they themselves are going to college. So breaking up isn't that could happen when you weigh all of the pros and cons.

Yet it could be confusing when your bf/gf comes back into town. Since it was a mutual break up with no big dramatic fight, feelings are bound to resurface. Don't become a townie booty call, they will go back to school in the end and you will stay here. There's nothing wrong with being friends, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

However, there are some couples that are able to stay together when one goes to college and the other is still in high school. Don't think for a minute things will still be same. It's going to be difficult going from seeing each other practically every day, to seeing each other maybe every weekend at best. When you yourself goes to college, where will you go? Some girls make the mistake of going to the same college, most of the times these relationships end. One word- awkward. You'll always wonder what if you did things differently, what could you have had?

Dealing with this is difficult and puts a lot of pressure on the relationship, but it has to come up in conversation or it'll just be a surprise. Whether it's good or bad is how you two deal with it.

Much love, xoxo
KKSM