Five types of romances you’re bound to come across during your time at Lancaster Uni

Universities are a hotbed of teenage (and slightly post-teenage) romances, and Lancaster is no different.

Whether or not you’ve ever been mentioned on Lancs Crush, you’re bound to have had an awkward encounter or two, be it a fumbled snog in the Sugar smoking area or accidentally got involved in a love triangle.

Here is your definitive guide to all of the terrible types of relationships you are bound to see in Lancaster. Maybe this way you’ll be able to avoid them.

1. The high school sweethearts

They’ve been together for ever, and you’re not sure how it has lasted. They definitely aren’t both at Lancaster, and you’ll ask if they want to go out, but it’s a no – they’ve got to get a five hour train to their hometown to visit the other. It feels like a lot to you, but to them, they wouldn’t have it any other way.

2. The overly intense couple

Honestly, this couple are the definition of “get a room”. They’ve been together since first year, and you just know that they’re never going to break up. You’ll get an invitation to their wedding, probably within six months of graduation, and then will follow their picture perfect life on Instagram for the rest of time. You hate nights out with them now, but honestly you kind of wish that was you.

3. The painful situationship

They met online, or in Sugar, or in the queue at Costa – it doesn’t matter, they hooked up once and now just have to see each other around campus. It’s awkward and it’s painful and it’s messy, and you don’t envy wither of them.

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You’ve definitely been dragged out of the A Floor plant wall by a friend because their situationship has just walked in. You wish them both well, really, but your heart rate could do with them just sorting it out.

4. The toxic one

They probably started out as flatcest, and just haven’t learned how to grow up yet. You’ll see them arguing on the Spine, or ignoring each other at the Underpass, and will feel immensely grateful that you decided to ignore that niggling crush on your first year flatmate. They won’t last, we all know that, but you do worry for the effect it’s having on their mental healths.

5. The pining pair

They aren’t dating. They never have been. But you know that both of them would like to be. The long looks, the flirty touches when they’re both drunk: there’s some serious pining going on here. Maybe they’ll get together, maybe it’ll just end as a quick romp in the sheets. Maybe they’ll never speak again after graduation. For now, they just need to sort themselves out.