When people are starting with new relationships, we can enjoy being together quite a bit. Even after the honeymoon phase ends, feelings can still be as strong as ever. When couples don't live near each other, it makes things harder than things need to be. Maybe one isn't quite over a long term relationship, maybe the two of you aren't financially ready to move in together. It sucks being apart from each other.
For one, the extended periods of time you two spend together are wonderful. Running errands with each other, eating breakfast together, cooking dinner together, binge-watching Netflix shows all night; everything you do together make you genuinely happy. Sleepovers for consecutive days help you understand who you're with, they can help you envision your lives together. Even if work keeps you on separate schedules, you'll still come home and fall asleep with your love. There's no better feeling.
However, there are nights where you can't be together. The examples are endless; yet it still doesn't seem like it's a good enough reason to be away. You can't sleep without them by your side, you can't think of anything else but your sweetheart. You text them relentlessly. You Snapchat them every time you think about them, which happens to be incessantly. You find memes that they'd love on Twitter and send them repeatedly. You yearn for them, you miss them even though you've only been apart for a few hours. You know leaving hurts when your love starts to tear up when you gather your things to leave.
Being apart from the one you love is rough. Be it school putting you hundreds of miles away, the military putting one of you on the other side of the globe, or living two towns over, the situations are endless. I can't stress it enough - if you care enough about the one you're with, don't let some distance get between the two of you. If things are meant to be, they will be.
When you two are ready, move in together. It'll be the be best thing to happen to the two of you, and it's the perfect dry run for the long term. It'll strengthen your relationship in ways you'll never have thought possible, and the struggles you'll go through together will fortify your partnership exponentially.
Yes, it's hard being away from your love right now. But once you get past this weird stage of going back and forth between houses and make the move to live together, things will be much easier. You and your love will be even more inseparable than before, and the two of you will grow into who you are supposed to be, as a couple.
