Reevaluation

[kingandy]

I've never been a believer in the long-distance relationship. I mean, I know they exist, and I'm sure that people get a lot out of them, but personally I've never seen the appeal. Commuting across the country, shuffling your life so you can snatch a few scant moments with your honey, then driving home again. Somehow this is referred to as "going out with". It seems to me an exercise in futility, and one which will inevitably end badly, with one party or the other on the short end of the commute, or simply growing apart. The Sims, after all, teach us that relationships need to be constantly reinforced by social contact.

That said, today I find myself driven to distraction by an unreasoningly strong urge to reevaluate my position on the matter.

Damn his eyes

Comments

[kingandy]

Hypothetically speaking, he's originally from Manchester and his parents still live up here, and he's thinking about moving back if and when his current job falls through. Hypothetically. So it's a not entirely dissimilar situation.

Incidentally, I feel like mentioning that this is not about desperately casting the net wide either - there is a specific person making me reevaluate things.

More as it develops.

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

Hoorah for Manchester origins.

I didn't mean to imply any desperation on your part. More that in my case if a specific person hadn't come along, I would have reevaluated things anyway given enough time, on a fish-in-the-river/fish-in-the-sea basis.

Also, it occurs to me that I have had at least one relationship where proximity was a large plus factor. The other factor was quantifiable (in handfuls) but less rational. In retrospect, the rational factor of proximity was the least pleasing and least memorable part of the relationship.

[kingandy]

I knew you weren't, just thought it worth clarifying for everybody else.