Dear Queenie,
There’s this boy I have been friends with since we were in primary school and this last year or so I have fallen in love with him and I think he feels the same way about me, but when I told him how I feel he said it just couldn’t work out because we are going away to college to two different schools in two different countries.
Queenie, is he right or do we have a chance?—Lovelorn
Dear Lovelorn,
I suspect he is right, but not for the reason he gave you. More than likely he just does not feel the same way about you as you feel about him and he was trying to “let you down easy.”
There is always the chance that “absence will make his heart grow fonder,” but do not depend on that happening. While you are away at college, keep yourself open to new friendships and the possibility of a new romance(s!).
