spending every night with a person while you were in high school and then up and leaving one day. Sure there are weekends to spend together, but not when you have to work most weekends. Late night phone conversations are about all that keeps you together. It gets tough being apart from someone you love, and someone who loves you. When you are finally free from working on a weekend, you still spend your time together knowing that when Sunday comes around, it’s back to being alone again. Your partner heads back to the town you once both shared. You spend the week not knowing where your partner is, whom they are with, and what they are doing. And the same goes for your partner. They are unaware of your actions as well. Trust must be present in a relationship for it to survive college.In college you are free to make most of your decisions without your parents interfering. But what seem to happen anyway is that you find yourself following your parents’ rules anyway. Sure you stay out late a few times, but you learn quickly that the schoolwork doesn’t get done and you end up earning bad grades- just like your mom said you would. So you really aren’t free at all. You just have to listen to a different type of discipline now- your own. You have to be the boss of yourself in college. If you are unable to accomplish this task, you will probably end up dropping out of college. Which, less than a year ago, was your dream....
