A friend once told me long-distance relationships should be avoided like the plague.
“In fact,” he said, “they are worse than the plague because at least with the plague you can die and be put out of your misery.”
He and I aren’t quite on the same page there, but there’s no avoiding the fact that long-distance relationships can be, to put it mildly, tricky.
If love were all logical, no one would get into LDRs. What reasonable person would make an investment in someone who isn’t going to be around? But what about those who are involved and later become separated by distance? Well, if you’ve been there, you know it’s not easy.
The times when you do see each other can be head-spinning. You need intimate, romantic time. You need town-painting time. There’s often even a need for Talk About the Relationship time. And then you want to cram in as much hanky-panky as you can stand. It’s exhausting.