Hi. So, like many teenagers my age, I’m kind of involved in an online/ texting relationship with a boy who lives across the country. I know he’s real because I follow him on every social media website ever created and (to be completely honest) he isn’t attractive enough to be a fake. I do have real, genuine feelings for this boy and we have so much in common. I know that’s not really excuse to fall for someone, but I think at this point we can both say we have very strong feelings for each other. We were born days apart from each other, but he’s in a grade below me. Sometimes I feel like the things he says are very annoying and immature (he talks about his SAT scores ALL THE TIME and I hate it—I don’t think the SATs are a true reflection of someone’s intelligence, but he does). Anyway, I’m going to college next year and I’m planning on making new friends and meeting new guys. He’s always telling me about how he’d never even think of getting with another girl and I’m the only one he thinks about, but he’s not the only boy I think about (I go to an all-girls school and I’m very innocent so I get curious). I want to have other boyfriends besides him (if we ever really meet), but he told me he doesn’t want me to hang out with other guys. I know I should live my own life and I shouldn’t let someone else control what I do, but I respect him as a person and the last thing I want to do is make him feel awful. On the other hand, I’ll never be this young again! I want to live my life (and Instagram pictures of everything I do with everyone I meet). It’s really early to be thinking about this but he literally thinks we’re going to get married and have kids, but that’s not my first priority at the moment. I want to be famous and I don’t want anything to hold me back. However, I do want to find out what relationships feel like, and I don’t know when we’re ever going to meet. I don’t know what to do or think at all!
