Going to School With Your Boyfriend

intparent
Sat, 19 Apr 2014 23:03:07 +0000

Okay… so this is still about your ability to live a somewhat separate life from him if you are on the same campus. Have you talked to him about this? You should be able to explain to him that while you definitely want to see him and spend some time with him, you also want to develop your own freshman social circle as well (just as he had the opportunity to do last year). And then maybe make a plan that you guys go out one night on the weekends, but you spend the other night with dorm people or whomever. And maybe you eat together a couple times a week, and study together a couple of times.

One way to “separate” a bit is to join clubs and activities where he is not involved, too. You need to set boundaries, but there is nothing wrong with letting him know that you are looking forward to expanding your social circle and enjoying making new friends in your class at college. If he has a problem with that, then maybe that breakup will come sooner rather than later…