Hi Chelsea,
The answer to your question depends upon a whole range of various factors, including how far the college he will be attending is from where you live and how much you previously had in common with him other than that you both may have previously attended the same school.
If your boyfriend is going to have to move or travel daily a reasonable distance in order to attend college then it is almost certain that this will have a significant effect on your relationship, although it does not necessarily all need to be negative. Absence can under certain circumstances make our hearts grow fonder for the one we love?
Another factor which I feel that you will need to take account of especially at first after he starts college if your relationship is going to have an above average chance of surviving this is that he will need for a time to focus more on his studies, giving him less time and energy left over in reserve for you.
I do not see this as being a major long term problem (unless of course you make it into one in your mind), but I do feel that you will both need to work more closely together to find a comfortable balance between continuing your relationship, while still allowing him to devote whatever time he needs to his college studies.
There is no doubt in my mind that things between you both are going to feel strangely different for a reasonable period of time after he begins at college. While I cannot make any actual predictions on the basis of this reading either that your relationship will survive or fail, I do believe that this does not need to be as much of a challenge to your relationship is you currently may think it must be.
That is if you are both able and willing to keep the two way channels of communication between you as fully open as possible, and openly and honestly discuss your fears and feelings about what is happening to each of you as a direct result of him starting college. Build upon whatever you can still manage to share, especially during the transition period, and try to find a way to work around any obstacles as best you are able.
You will need to do some things differently, but that does not automatically mean that all change is negative. You may be pleasantly surprised to discover that doing things differently for a while can add more variety and spice to your relationship than if you had never been forced by circumstances to change your attitudes and behaviour. You may never want to go back to exactly how things were between you before he began college, because you are each enjoying life too much to want to.
Wishing you both every happiness for the future,
eye_of_tiger
