If you are living in a dorm in a university that is 5 minutes from your home it is as if you are living in a completely different world. You wake up every day on campus and surrounded by all the “stuff” that is there (whether it be a hung over freshman who had too much last night, or students dropping a pumpkin off the roof, or a party, or an intramural softball game, or club activities, or just students to talk to, or any of a very long list of other things).
Then if you need help it is close by. Painful breakups and other problems can and do occur when people are in university.