BLOG POST #4- Long Distance Relationships, Part 2
Long distance relationships don’t always have to deal with distance geographically either. I was recently in a relationship with a girl who was a few years younger than I am. Everything worked out really well and we actually were going strong for over a year. Fourteen months in fact. The age difference helped at first in that we were able to find much of what we had in common but we also were able to learn a lot about each other in ways that same-age couples can’t. Being at different points in our lives, our daily routines and daily lives were vastly different from one another. This would lead to invigorating conversations and allowed us to experience new and exciting things.
In fact—a study I once read said that the strongest marriages are the ones in which the spouses are at least 6 years apart from each other. This looked great and I’m sure it probably is true. But when it came to our relationship, in the end the long distance age didn’t work.
Because of the age difference, when one of us needed the other, we weren’t always around. Our drastically different lives, had us in different places at times when we needed each other the most. It was often tough to even find a time or place where we could meet and be alone together. Perhaps at a later stage in our lives, the long distance relationship could work. But from my experience here, it simply doesn’t. I wished and wish it did, but it just didn’t.
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