Everyone knows that spring season is cuffing season. All throughout the hallways you see couples cupcaking up against the wall, with new couples emerging left and right. Maybe the love in the air is caused by the season, or maybe it’s just because prom is around the corner. Yet spring season means something else for seniors, it’s their last semester of high school, and in a couple of months, the class of 2015 will be splitting up across the country.

Personally, high school relationships never really made any logical sense to me. High schoolers are 13 to 18-year-olds who will end up going their separate ways (even if separate ways means one third of each class ending up at either the University of Arkansas, Texas Tech, or at the University of Oklahoma). Rationally speaking, it would make little to no sense to encourage dating in high school because most of the relationships are destined to end with a break up.

In life beyond high school, the steps in a relationship go from dating to engagement, then marriage and kids. But rarely do you ever hear about high school sweethearts ending up together in the long run, and if you think about it, our school has such a small pool of partners and honestly, the right person for you probably isn’t one of our 1200 students. And by the time someone is a senior in high school, why would they ever commit to someone who’s not even going to be around in less than six months?

On top of that, emotions skew individuals rational decisions, and college is a major decision each teenager faces at the end of high school. So if your boyfriend is going to be at Arkansas next year and you have had your heart set on UT since you could walk, but you love your boyfriend so much, so maybe it wouldn’t be all that bad if you go to Arkansas next year because you love your boyfriend. NO!!! Don’t do that. Or what if you do move to Austin and he goes to Fayetteville and you try the whole long distance relationship, then you’re constantly worried about where your partner is, if they’re faithful, if they miss you as much as you miss them, you rarely even get to see each other, and despite technological innovations such as FaceTime and Snapchat, your relationship will suffer and not be the same.

Teenagers are so filled with emotions and they tend to be overdramatic and they feel too much and they think too much and senior year is by far the most stressful year, emotionally, because once it’s over, most of us dig up our roots and move far from our homes and families and friends, and it’s scary. To add the stress of love on top of it all may seem like a good idea while you’re with your significant other, holding hands, cuddling and what-have-you. But once August arrives (which it will), you’ll be crushed once you and your boyfriend/girlfriend are forced to split ways. High school relationships rarely last forever. Everyone has so much maturing to do and so much of life to experience that if you commit yourself to someone you met when you were fifteen that will be all that you ever know and there’s a lot more than a teenage relationship.