Living Together During College

oneofthosemoms
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:35:25 +0000

I have told my S that I won’t financially support him living with a significant other while he is in college. It’s not out of some moral conviction but that I don’t want him to have to deal with the fallout if the relationship ends. I know when things are going well it seems like you’d be able to handle a break-up just fine. But try to imagine how you will feel if your boyfriend breaks it off with you, and you are in the middle of a semester. You have all that school pressure, possible work pressure also, and then one of you needs to move out. You’re forced to live together until other arrangements can be made. The stress of dividing up what belongs to whom while also dealing with a broken heart.

This also happens to people once they graduate, but being young and dealing with college at the same time makes it so much worse. Keeping two separate places during college allows you to get away from each other when you need to, and if the breakup happens, it’s a much cleaner process.