Long Distance Relationships

Sometimes things aren't meant to work out. Sometimes distance kills love. Sometimes long distance relationships just don't work. For a little over a year I have been in a long distance relationship with a college freshman. For about a year everything was extraordinarily good, we never had any issues, never a fight, and nothing I could truly complain about. During this last home stretch however, we have been separated for two and a half months and the distance started eating away at both of us. I had a bad combination of many things, friends telling me it isn't worth it, sports and school consuming most of my time, finals and school controlling her time. Overall we were on a highway to relationship hell and we couldn't find the exit. What I realized is, if it is truly meant to be then we have to MAKE the time, we have to work together in order to make everything fall into place. Next year I am attending a college 40 minutes from her school and we will be much closer, not to mention, she comes home 3 days from the time I am writing this. Long Distance Relationships are hard, they are time consuming, but they can be worth it. If you trust, love, and work then the rumors of terror that comes with long distance can be put to rest and happiness can be put forth. Overall I am proud of what I have accomplished, staying in a relationship separated by hundreds and hundreds of miles because not many people can. If you truly commit to the relationship then it will work. Hopefully if your struggling with a relationship right now, you read this, and you realize that it can be done because I promise, it only gets better from the bottom up.