I know this is the season for the high school sweethearts to part ways when they come home from college for the holidays , but what do we call it when they broke up shortly after college started and get back during Thanksgiving or Winter break ?
My youngest has been nursing a broken heart for the duration of her first semester . She and the ex boyfriend decided to get together for coffee yesterday and judging by the length of the meeting, there must have been something to talk about . ( mama and papa bear went to sleep before she got home )
Seems like the same thing is happening with a few of her friends and peers that also broke up during the first semester.
I missed this part of the parents manual 
Oh the drama !
Sounds like these are couples who broke up while going their separate ways, but after doing so, either didn’t find the grass is greener or didn’t find any lawn at all.
Don’t know what holiday-appropriate name to give them…hmmm…sweet potatoes?..Turkey Leftovers?
The Turkey Pick-Up?
I was shocked with our neighbor’s sophomore 16 YO son and his 16 YO GF - they have been a ‘couple’ for about 6 months. Evidently in the past hickies; they disappeared for a long time, and older sis said they were off having sex…the mom then was telling me about all the sexual experimentation HS students are having, 3 somes etc. The intimate relationship may be casual from one party and serious from the other party - and ultimately a broken heart and maybe other things, STDs, pregnancy, etc.
Learning is going on at many levels through these teen and young adult years, and through life as well. Hard to sometimes go forward on various paths of life after some decisions made ‘in the moment’.
Same thing happened in my home, and we weren’t happy about it. Unfortunately we expressed our views and he was chilly, but polite for a few days. Lesson learned…do not express views! He’s fine now. We think the reason is that he might be a little lonely and they not only dated, but were good friends. He has to find his own way!
For decades, the only Turkey Drop I was aware of was the one put on by radio station WKRP back in the 1970’s.
When DS was dating a girl toward the end of high school, the “disappearnce” would not be allowed to happen, by both girl’s family and our family. What else can happen when the only allowed place to date is the living room in her family and her sibling and parents were around?!
He became a victim of “Turkey Drop” later.
Leftovers?.. jk
conmama , it’s the same thing with these two…they really were more than just boyfriend and girlfriend , which is why she had such a hard time moving on…it was like she was mourning the loss of her best friend too because they were so close and really had a lot of fun together.
And it is official that they are back together again…we shall see how it goes.
As for now, she is happy and that is a relief to my husband and I .
Turkey hook up.
Wait a minute. This is all new to me. So… a Turkey Drop is when you’ve gone away from each other for the first semester of school and then see each other again at first big break, Thanksgiving, and decide to let the other person go? Is this reciprocal, or one-sided?
It’s the “breakup after returning home for the first school break” “tradition” (for lack of a better word). I believe it can go either way (either in the relationship can break up with the other).
No , turkey drop refers to when high school sweethearts who leave for a college as a couple break up around the holidays…my oldest had more of a St Patrick’s Day drop from the boy she swore she was going to marry 
Isn’t that what posters said, lje62? The HS sweethearts break up at Thanksgiving.
@conmama: I’m sorry - who learned the lesson? ( I read it as you and your mate learned not to say anything to the young adult having sex in your home.)
Turkey seconds? 
Isn’t that what posters said, lje62? The HS sweethearts break up at Thanksgiving.
Yes, jym , but post#10 asked for a clarification , which apparently I posted a minute after your post
great minds…
Apparently posts 10-13 were all within a few minutes of each other. Didn’t notice that…
^^ I suspect that posts get delayed or otherwise interrupted …I got a message the other day when I was trying to comment on a Tday recipe thread that I " didn’t have permission " to comment
I actually learned the phrase Turkey drop here on CC
@jym626: My question really went the way of , “This is a thing? Turkey Drop?”
And then I’d been curious as to whether there was some sort of inequity in the parting, as in someone does not want to walk away and is, therefore, the dupe for holding on - a “turkey,” in a sense.
When I turned and said something to my husband, his understanding was it was most likely a situation between two kids who’d been perfectly fine with each other as mates before college, but one stays local and the other goes far away and realizes the sea is wide and the fish plenty, and so “drops” the one who stayed, metaphorically and geographically, in the same place.