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Why Long Distance Relationships Are so Worth It

By: Adeline Miller

By Adeline MillerPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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It’s so easy to say that you’ll love someone through thick and through thin, together or apart, but the truth is that humans are fickle creatures. We’re constantly evolving, alway on the move and changing ourselves. Finding a type of music or food that we love and would never give up is one thing, but an entire person? In a world where we’re never content with ourselves, how can we expect to find another human being that we’d be content to spend the rest of our lives? Almost half of all marriages end in divorce, and the chances of long distance relationships surviving are even slimmer.

However, once in a blue moon, someone does find their true soulmate and life partner. Someone find some worth the heartache and the effort. And when they find that person, they should do everything in their power to hold onto them. Unfortunately, the likelihood of that person living within fifteen minutes of you is going to be incredibly slim. There are literally seven billion people on the planet, so what are the chances of your person living in the same city as you?

If you’re like me, you could very get lucky and meet your person in your city after all. Unfortunately, you won’t get to keep your luck because more likely than not, at some point or another in your relationship one of you will have to move away, whether for school or a job. Then you have to make your choice, stay with that person and try and make long distance work, or break it off. If you choose the latter option, then that probably wasn’t the person for you after all. But if you guys try to make it work, then that’s love. It’s hard, it's so very very hard but dear god it's worth it.

There will be times when you fight or get jealous or need space. You’ll get lonely and sad and hurt. Sometimes you’ll have been so used to having that person all the time you’ll have taken them for granted and end up drifting apart or not knowing how to cope with the distance. You could let these things destroy your relationship, or you could take a step back and figure out how to fix it. When you love someone enough, you’re usually willing to do everything in your power to keep them in your life. Which, in the case of long distance, usually means a lot of sacrifice. You learn what effort means. You learn how to be selfless or how to work on trusting them. There’s gonna be tears, long late night phone conversations, and a lot of traveling back and forth.

But being in a long distance relationship can be one of the greatest things you ever do. You get to find out the difference between real love and superficial love. Nothing will force you to reevaluate your life more than getting off the phone with someone at 3 AM after talking about the weirdest things for hours and realizing that you want to spend your life with that person. Being in love with someone who’s thousands of miles away, and knowing that they love you too, is one of the most satisfying feelings.

Never give up on the one you believe is the love of your life just because they live a few hours away, you’ll never get to know that happiness or have the knowledge that your relationship is so worth it that not even distance can keep you from each other. Because distance means nothing when someone means everything.

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