Dear wonderful boyfriend,
It hurts to love you from so far away. It hurts to see you there on the screen of my phone, and not be able to touch you. It hurts to know how warm your embrace feels and to be so very far from that now. Sometimes I feel too selfish and needy for how much I ask of you, but you never shy away from the challenge. Instead, you do everything you can to make us feel together. Even now, we talk so often that I think I've almost forgotten what it's like to be without you. You always work to fill each moment with all the things that make me love you.
I think, most of all, I love the late night phone calls where we talk for hours about nothing. Being away from you can be hard, but you never leave me feeling lonely for long. It can be hard to feel surrounded by loved ones during the holidays and still be unable to find you among the faces. Yet there you are still at the end of my day, ready to tell me about yours. In a way, it makes me regret the holidays; that the most relaxing time of my year has to be spent away from you. It seems like everything here tries to pull me away from you, like life doesn't want us to be together. Our parents try so hard to pull and push one way after another, and after a while, it can start to fool us. It seems that when we go home, you go your way and I go mine, and that would be the end of that. But I promise that no matter where our vacations take us, I will love you as though you were here in my arms.
The same goes for any sort of situation we may find ourselves in. Often times we may be criticized by disapproving parents, or in some cases an un-approving world. But I promise that I'll always be here to say that nothing like that will ever matter to me. No matter what sort of home lives we have, or what sort of people we are, my love for you will never waver. It's the little things you do that make the distance feel smaller, and its the things you say that make my heart that much warmer.
On behalf of long-distance couples, I want to thank you for the little things in life: both the "how has your morning been" texts and the "I miss you" ones. You have proven to me that love cannot be measured by distance or time spent, but in the effort invested into making us grow together. So over this holiday it doesn't matter how far away you are, or even the number of Skype dates we have. Come every night, when you tell me about your day and I tell you about mine, I'm reminded of how much I love you.
Sincerely,
A long-distance girlfriend
