If you were in a long term relationship in college, how did you maintain it over the summer?
The same as during the school year. It’s kind of easier in the summer, because we’re not as stressed.
We lived together.
What if you normally go home over the summer? Wouldn’t it be awkward to tell your family that you’ll be staying away? Would someone be able to maintain a relationship if both they and the partner went home?
I’m not dating anyone now, just curious. I had a dream last night where I had a boyfriend and had to awkwardly tell my
Mom he’d be staying in my room at home.
If you’re apart, Skype. Having stuff to do, living your lives and not being tied down to staying in contact with the other person is a good idea. If its a good relationship, a summer shouldn’t be any problem. It sucks but it’s just the norm and knowing you will be back in the fall makes it very different from a long distance relationship without a foreseeable end to the distance.
Then you keep in touch via the numerous communication devices and maybe visiting if possible.
Why would it be? You’re presumably an adult.
Of course if they both wanted to and both put effort into it.
We’re both commuters, so summer isn’t a problem in itself. In general, we take the relationship seriously and we’ve always tried to figure things out so that we can stay relatively close to each other. I would go away for a couple of months (I’m hoping to go to an REU next summer, and I might not be able to get into a nearby one because they’re really competitive), but I wouldn’t go to graduate school in California or something. There are other options.
A lot of parents would disapprove of their (teenage?) college student living with an SO over the summer, especially if it meant not seeing the student after a semester in college. This matters if you depend on your parents for money and/or care what they think in general.
I guess I don’t consider adults to be teenagers. Not my experience so not something I understand.
You’d do the things that those of us who have boyfriends back home do during the school year… Skype, text, Facebook, call, occasionally visit.