LDR - Long Distance Relationships

If you’re troubled whether your long distance relationship will last long enough or not, you are not alone. The sad truth is, no one really bothers to acknowledge the difficulties of keeping up a long distance relationship – people think it’s downright absurd and is bound for a breakup anyway. My parents, best friends, co-workers or classmates might have told me over and over again that it’s never going to work.

So I said to myself: "Go on. Maintain the long distance relationship. Prove everybody wrong." But as I said, it gets difficult sometimes. At first, I didn’t know what to do. I’m going out of my mind. I’m 23 and he’s only 19. Trust issues are going out of hand.

Oh well. Que sera sera. The future is not ours to see.

It’s really hard to maintain a long distance relationship. Simply because it's different when my guy is here with me. We can hug and kisses are real. Now that he's far we can't do that anymore. Holding on to the mantra “distance makes the heart grow fonder” began to give me doubts. But what I forgot was technology. Technology closes that gap. Thanks to the internet, keeping in touch with my sweetheart abroad isn't as expensive as other modes of communication in the past. We exchange e-mails, chat and call each other or flood each other’s social networking site with sweet nothings.

I must say, it had been a very tough long distance relationship, but we managed. We kept the relationship alive for almost two years, and now, he's back here with me. For good. I’ve never been happier than I am right now. Never more loved, more appreciated, and more at peace with the world. We have come such a long way from being separated by copious amounts of sea and being unsure, scared, and anxious to where we are now. Comfortable, contented and best of all, secure.

Long distance relationships may sound unusual and challenging – but it’s not impossible. Distance is not a setback. Distance should not be the basis to end a relationship. Distance should be defied and considered as a test to make the bond stronger.