I've been in your situation before. Trust me, you'll want to walk away from this one. I live in California. She lives in Michigan. We still speak to eachother. In fact, we're still quite close. I'd say I can tell her just about anything that's on my mind and she probably understands how I think on far more higher of a level than anyone does locally here. Perhaps that's because when you're 2,000 miles away all you can do is exchange intelligence and conversation. That's an important aspect of a relationship. One of the most important ones in my opinion. But you need all the variables of an important relationship for one to successfuly exist. The mind would be one of the major parts of human anotomy but the body will still not function without the heart, lungs, liver, and other vital organs. So it is the same with relationships and the physical distance between the two of you is more than just a physical rift, no matter how well matched the two of your are or aren't.

Think ahead to when you're out of school. What are your plans for yourself? What are his plans for himself? Are you willing to leave all of your family behind entirely to live out of state with him? Or is he willing to? That's not as easy as it first seems. I know, because for about a year I lived way off in Florida with my mother and some dude she met from the internet away from everyone here and I despised being so far apart from the rest of the family. Would you even be able to financially support such an undertaking?

These are the barriers that the both of us found ourselves against. I don't want to leave my family. I don't want to quit my job and then be entirely jobless out there. Sure, I can find another one but I don't believe in quitting one job until you have another lined up because it's a bitch to find jobs and how will you financially support yourself in the interim? She's taking all kinds of college classes on a really good grant she got from the grades she made in high school. Would it be fair of me to expect her to drop all of that in order to come all the way over here? Would it be fair of me to expect her to ditch all of her family over there when I am unwilling to do that from my end?

There's alot of heartache involved in this. And far more compromises and far more that we are required to give up entirely than we even think about when we enter such a thing as a long distance relationship. What are you willing to sacrifice for this kid? Also bear in mind that at your age, it'll be awhile before you even have the ability to sacrifice these sorts of things for him. Alot can change in between then and now.

Not saying that these sorts of things aren't possible. Just that they're more difficult than any of us give them credit for. And far more uncertain on top of all of that. To me it isn't feasable. What it is to you is your business, but you asked for advice and there's my experience.