Are Long Distance Relationships For Real?

I don’t really get the point of long distance relationships. I understand why it has to happen in certain instances, but don’t get really the overall idea. For it to be a long distance relationship, it has to have an end to it. With every long distance relationship, you wouldn’t be in one if it didn’t mean at some point, the two of you are going to have to live in the sample place. But at what point is that, and who has to move, and under what circumstance does that happen at? Who decides when to pass the baton on, and when!

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I think it’s fair to say that most long distance relationships start off by two people meeting in a place other than their own, they happen to really get along and then try to see where it goes once they return back to their individual places. So then what? How can you reeeally get to know someone if you aren’t starting off living in the same place in the first place? Every time you were to see one another of course it’s going to be a great time because you haven’t seen each other for a few weeks. Then you leave, and you probably have had no fights, no arguments because you only have a certain amount of time to do all that you need to do. When then does your partner learn your bad side. When do they see your bad moods when you come home from work and just want to put your feet up on the couch and not talk to anyone. When do they see you in those spontaneous moments, or when do they see you crack under pressure.

This all comes by living in a close proximity. Don’t get me wrong, I know many people who have met living far away from one another, and continued their relationship long distance and now are very happy, I just find it a very hard concept to grasp. Of course this is very common, we live in a massive world, who says that ‘the one for you’ has to be living within 20 miles. If that’s the case well then I’m in trouble!

Do long distance relationships work? Do they work better than other relationships maybe because you don’t get tired or sick of one another? The hardest part about long distance I think is that both people have to be committed to doing long distance. If you like each other enough then obviously that is not a problem. But at what point does it get to be too much and you juts can’t handle not living close to your loved one.

I guess they do say ‘Love is what makes the world go round…”