relationship ending. problem.

College is very different from high school. You are growing and developing as a mature human being. What you want in a mate may just be very different from what you wanted as a boyfriend.

Enjoy your new life. If your boyfriend is right for you, you WILL get together. I would suggest though, that you keep in touch, but don't make any committments. It's a big, wide world out there, and you need to experience a lot of different relationships, before you are ready to finally settle down. Don't deprive yourself of those experiences.

Here's my great story. I knew a couple who had gone together since 8th grade. They split up in their senior year, and then they went to college in different parts of the country. Some years later, when they were both back home, they ran into one another. The last that I heard, they were married.

I think you guys have made the right decision. I'm the same age, and up until earlier this year i would've been able to say exactly the same thing. We were best friends, we were practically (and for a while during exams literally) living together. But when you go to college you will grow up and change more than any other time in your life. It's not like you're saying you don't mean that much to each other - but by the time you leave college you will be a different person. If the bit of you that loves each other hasnt changed then cool you can try again after college. But no matter how sad it makes you, you're saving yourself a lot of heartache this way

I did this very same thing... left my boyfriend of almost 3 years when I went to college.

I knew he had no interest in college and planned to spend his life in my high-school town. I knew I'd never return there after college (and I didn't).

I cared for him deeply and we were very good friends, but I just knew I'd be growing and he would not.

You'll miss him, I think, but my guess is you wouldn't be thinking of breaking up unless you already knew it's the right thing to do.

College is great fun, and you'll be meeting many interesting new people. Enjoy!

thanks you guys; it's good to have my decision reinforced.