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

[kestrana.livejournal.com]

I've had two long distance relationships - one successful, one not.
Its possible to successfully have one if two criteria are met: First, you must both be committed to the relationship and willing to work through the difficulties of distance. There is no halfway (well unless you're meeting there). Secondly, I think there has to be the idea that at some point it stops becoming a long distance relationship. My second experience with it was only a success because after 4 months of long distance (2100 miles) the distance became a 30-45 minute drive. After the previous distance that wasn't nearly so bad. Then we lived together. Then we moved together. Then we broke up. So actually, for us long distance was probably the better option *irony*