We’ve wrapped up another year and it’s time to say goodbye to the friends we spend nine months of the year with.

For most of us, it’s only for three short months, but if you’re graduating it could be much longer. Can you and your main squeeze withstand the distance?

Not seeing the ol’ roomie for a few months? Harsh, but you’ll survive. Not seeing your sweetheart? You might not be able to wait this one out.

Long distance relationships can be a true test of just how committed you are to one another. If you both really want it to work, it probably will. If one puts forth more effort than the other, the relationship will sink fast.

Long distances can weed out those relationships that are just about sex. It goes without saying that long distance relationships have very little intimacy since you won’t be seeing each other very often. So no, you can’t just walk down the hall whenever you get horny.

Instead, you get fabulously long phone conversations with periods of awkward silence. You pick up the phone every day and say, “Hey honey, how was your day?” Is their internship still making them want to pull their hair out?

Or if they’re a bum all summer, “How’s that new tanning lotion working out? Still lookin’ like a burnt bean?”

OK, so it’s not so great. Chin up, it’s only temporary.

You’re probably going to get a little lonely and your eyes may start to wander. This is to be expected, but do not act on these urges. Nothing good will come of it.

You’re going to have to trust each other. Quite a concept, I know, but all successful partners do it.

Then there’s visiting each other, which you should do as often as possible. Sometimes you may have to travel a long way and it sucks.

This is where that whole “relationships are a two way street” thing comes into play. It is not fair to make the other person always come see you.

Change it up every now and then. It doesn’t matter which location is more convenient, or where the sleeping situations are better.

Maybe spending the night at her parent’s house isn’t so great. So her over-protective dad makes you sleep above the garage; at least you get to see her.

You’re doing all this because you really care about the person. When you’ve taken your last final exam and college is said and done, you’re going to want to be in whatever city they’re in.

You’ll enter adulthood together, where your worries will go beyond looking like a burnt bean.