I F-18 have been with my boyfriend M-18 for 1.5 years. We started dating when he was a junior and I was a sophomore. He has since graduated and is attending a nearby university.
I am planning on attending our state college (as long as l am accepted) next fall. And I have been heavily considering breaking up with him before I leave. The main fuel for this is what has happened previously when we are apart. When I was away visiting my dad last summer, I was gone for a month, and almost every day he texted me about how much he missed me, and twice a week he was telling me about how he didn't know if we was going to be able to make it through the time(again, one month that we are apart. And I genuinely don't think that me being at a college 3.5 hours away will be good for either of us.
I don't know if breaking up with him before I leave is something I should do. I know a lot of couples do it "for the college experience" but that's not what I want. I just want to be able to go through college without having to worry about him being distress all the time, and I don't want him to stress about it. I've tried talking to him about the possibilities of us not working out once we're: college because of the distance, he wants to give it a shot, but I really think it'll just hurt us both in the end.
How am I supposed to approach this? Any advice on it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
tl:dr: I don’t know if it would be appropriate for me to break up with my high school boyfriend before going to college because I am worried long distance will just end up hurting us both at the end of it.