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In college, you may find yourself leaving friends, family, as well as your relationship behind.  If this sounds like your plan, you’re not alone.  Now, one of the biggest fears that many students come across is that their relationship isn’t going to last.

A long distance relationship can last and if you’re looking to make it last, I wanted to give you some rules that you must follow in order to have yourself stay afloat.

What is your future? To make it work, you’re going to need to know what you want for the future.  When you have a plan for the future, its going to make things a lot easier for you.  So what I’m trying to say is that you should have a plan.  When are you going to come home?  When are you going to visit on campus?

Try and stay in contact: Make it your duty to contact each other at least once per day.  The best way of contact is generally the telephone.  If you can’t reach each other via the phone, you have so many other alternatives such as Facebook, Skype, text messaging, and more.

E-mail each other: E-mail is a great way to go because you can do it at any time and the other party can open it whenever they wish.  If you can, try and email each other on a daily basis.  Send poems, pictures, and more.  You will want to make it feel as if you’re there.

Beware of the unknown: Minds tend to wander and if you start to think too much, you’re going to find that you can think about bad things such as jealousy, and other things.  When your mind starts to think things like this, you may start to believe them.  This isn’t what you want.  Never accuse if you can’t prove that it didn’t happen.

Bring him/her into your life: You can always pretend that you’re with one another.  What you can do is send pictures, movies, or whatever it may be.  Tell them what you do.  That way, the other party won’t feel left out.

You can make a long distance relationship work.  Sure, its going to take a lot more work than your typical relationship, but you know the old saying states that the distance does make the heart grow fonder.