You're sixteen years old, and you and your boyfriend or girlfriend have been together for five months. At this age, your relationship is basically consisting of late night conversations on the telephone, and holding hands between classes. And possibly, an occasional outing to the movies on Friday night, coming home by 12:00 midnight of course! Is this love? Or is this just a close friendship that you're not accustomed to having with the opposite sex? Or is i

t even a close friendship? Maybe the two of you just have the title so you don't feel supposedly, because all of your friends are "hooked up". As said by Stephanie H. Meyer, an author on

You seek advice from friends, and all you hear is negativity. The two of you want to stay together. Remember, the rest of your life? So you are willing to make the relationship work. The summer goes by which seems to be the quickest three months of your life. August comes and it's time to say goodbye.

This is by far one of the hardest stages a relationship may go through. Few get through it, most fail. When you start your relationship you think that nothing's going to tear the two of you apart, but then you or the other person have to move away and two of you must go different ways. In this case, as a result, the inevitable occurs, break-up.

According to the dating doctor, David Coleman, recent studies show 90% of all long distance relationships end within a year. 95% within two years. 98% within three years. 99% within four years. The reasons for this are simple. People force them to talk on the phone, even when they have nothing to talk about. This causes the couple to become frustrated at the silence and start arguing. People start to miss the affection that comes from a significant other and "accidently" seek and find other people to give them what they crave. Also, the couple won't be able to cope with the fact that the other person has new friends to occupy their time not spent with them. Another factor that causes break-up amongst long distance relationships is when people try to control one another by making the decision on where and what they should go and do for them. And lastly, the couple just simply grow apart and develop new interests.

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