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Long distance relationship in college
18/f
My boyfriend left a few days ago to attend a college 5 hours away for his freshman year. We've agreed to try and make our relationship work long distance but I am so scared and almost everyone I talk to is less than supportive of the idea. I care about him very much and would like to continue dating him, so can anyone give me advice on sustaining a long distance relationship? Also, every since he's left I've been feeling majorly depressed. I'm commuting to school (it's a city school so it does have a large population of commuters) and I'm worried that I won't be able to make any friends. My big fear is that he'll have tons of fun at school and I won't have a good time at all.
It's like everything is happening at once and I am so overwhelmed.
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I've been in a long distance relationship for almost four years. And not home to college, but different countries. The keys are:
- Complete trust. If he feels you're holding him back from meeting new friends and doing new things because you're jealous and don't want him to go out, etc. he'll resent that.
- Communication. Talk. Talk about everything you feel, talk all of the time. Find fun things to do. Watch movies together over skype. When you skype him, don't be grunged out but put on some make up and nice clothes. Send him links of stuff you find and read. Read the same books. Do things to stay connected.
Hope that helps...
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