With the end of the school year fast approaching, everyone on campus is anxiously awaiting their return home for the summer. Beach trips, spending time with your home friends, and no more classes or studying until fall? Yes please! But along with the excitement of getting to go home comes the disappointment of having to leave your friends, and – even worse – not getting to see that guy in your class who you’ve had your eye on anymore. And this fact brings you to the biggest question of the semester: is it worth it to start something with him, or does summer make it too complicated?
Starting a New Hookup:
Although a new relationship or hookup with only about one and a half months left of school is going to be difficult, a hookup is the more logical of the two. You can have your fun while you’re still at school and then go your separate ways for the summer, allowing for the possibility of things continuing in the fall (but with no guarantees). There’s also the obvious possibility of things going badly and getting awkward quickly with a hookup. Summer, in this case, is your saving grace, because you no longer have any chance of seeing this person for a few months. When it comes to a bad hookup, it really couldn’t get better than that.
However, as ideal as this may sound, there are a lot of ways in which a new hookup could get complicated fast. The first and most obvious reason is that if feelings end up developing, there’s not much you can do about it when you leave for summer. Additionally, with the impending summer separation, you may start developing feelings on your end, but your hookup may decide that as soon as you go home for the summer, you two aren’t going to talk anymore. This could lead to you getting hurt – badly. Of course, in a perfect situation, you two live close enough together that you can see each other occasionally over the summer. If this is the case, then definitely go for the new hookup, because it doesn’t have to end for the summer if you don’t want it to. At the end of the day, no matter what the situation is, the decision is 100% up to you.
Starting a New Relationship:
Unfortunately, this option will probably prove to be a little more difficult. Maybe you two have been slowly progressing towards a relationship for a while now, but the nearness of summer is now complicating things. The perfect situation would be living close enough to your new partner so that you can still see each other quite a bit. If that is the case, then it is definitely worth it to go for it. If that’s not the case and you two live a little farther apart, if you are willing to both put in the effort to see each other a few times over the summer and plan video chats to keep in touch, a relationship can also be very reasonable. You just need to decide if you’re both willing to put in the effort to have a successful long distance relationship.
Regardless, starting a new relationship this close to the end of the year would be hard. You two will no longer be within a five-minute walk of each other, so you will not be able to see each other as much. Depending on the person and how successful you think you two will be, you need to make a decision about what you think is best. Whether that requires testing out a relationship over the summer or deciding to just talk here and there and see what happens in the fall, it’s all up to what will make you the happiest.
Whether you’re looking for a hookup or a relationship, being apart for the summer will be a struggle, and the convenience of being at the same school will disappear. Whatever you choose to do, you just need to make sure that it’s the right choice for you. Obviously, there are many pros and cons to both cases – you just need to decide which outweighs the other in your particular situation.