Right now, as you are reading this, thousands of couples around the country are making plans to: "stay together", "see what happens" or "break up." Why? Because we have just entered that time of year again: The time in-between graduation and September's 'next steps' -- when things end and the rumbling of new things are underway.

Maybe you yourself are a member of one of these couples, sitting at a diner in front of two half eaten BLT's. Your fingers clasped between each other, resting heavy on the sticky tabletop. You search each other's eyes for the right next thing -- the right choice.

Do you have what it takes...

Yes, you love each other. Yes, you've been together since sophomore year and for the most part its been perfect. Who could forget that trip to Barcelona, or how she was there for you during your Mom's hip replacement, but, is that enough? Can that overcome the fact that in a few weeks you are going to different grad schools? Separate universities? Starting a job on the other side of the country? Seeing him off to the Peace Corps, The Marines, a backpacking trip in Europe with no end in sight?

"Staying Together" means playing cyber house. With emails, texts, FB and the rest. Saying hi when you feel lonely in New York at 9pm and he is at a fun party with his friends at midnight. Or Skyping with that weird freeze and delay every once in a while that makes you feel even more distant than before. And what do you talk about? The little day to day things, or the big stuff? So do you need more shampoo, or so, how's war? You get off the session feeling spun out and back in your very separate worlds.

"See What happens" is a cocktail for anxiety or a practice in faith, depending on the situation. See what happens either means let things unfold organically, or is a hidden agenda for making out with others. There are no hard rules for see what happens, rather it's like going down two separate water tubes at an amusement park and hoping you guys get spit out in the same pool at roughly the same time. There's a fair amount of what happens while we're apart stays apart from us.

"The Break up" Perhaps the most rational, is certainly the least romantic. It's a pragmatic step that seeks to preemptively cut the couple off from lingering depression, confusion and heartbreak. The break up when things are good is emotionally counterintuitive, but done for the potential common good. It's like shooting a dog right after he gets bit by a vampire. No, he's not suffering or nuts now, but he sure as shit he will be soon.

There is no clear "right plan." The couples that seem destined to make it can collapse by Thanksgiving and the couples that barely got along at their commencement are now stronger than ever.

Still, these are good problems to have, as they say. When you're walking down the processional, waiting to get that diploma think about the kid behind you who only went on one blind date his whole four years at school, or the Valedictorian who, yes, is going to intern at the White House starting in two weeks, but doesn't know the feeling of true love.

And speaking of true love, I'll leave you at the diner with your thoughts and Radiohead's True love waits. Though I could also leave you with Fleetwood Mac's Go your own way.

Good Luck, Couples of 2011