For those of you who are or who have been in a long distance relationship I feel this article will relate solely to you! For the past 9 months of my life I have been invested in a long distance relationship and if I told you it was easy I would be lying but worth it absolutely. For somebody who is as independent as I am it is probably an easier way to approach a relationship you still have some me time, but what I am starting to realize is that I want to spend that time with him now. I suppose some might say that is love. Do not get me wrong I still need some alone time but I miss him and it would be a lot easier to say give me an hour to myself then to say fly here for a weekend every other month. So here are five things that you may or may not feel apply to you as your significant other lives states away from you:

1. I’m broke. Plane tickets are no joke these days. Plus I can only take off so many days of work you know, and what do you do when your significant other comes here and you still have to work? In my opinion long distance relationships are way more expensive! Plus when we are together we spend loads of money because we want to do everything and anything together so we can enjoy our special and limited time together!
2. You get used to sleeping by yourself so when you are together you take up most of the bed. Not just when sleeping, but the entire apartment or house you now have to share with somebody. What happened to all the space you used to have? Not to mention the whole bathroom thing, not that takes a while to get used to.
3. You become organized and have acquired good time management skills, I would like to think so anyways! Between working 45 hours a week, instructing one yoga class, full time graduate student and working out and eating, I still manage to find time to devote to my boyfriend. At first it was difficult, but you have to set time apart from everything else to really focus on your relationship otherwise I feel like it would not work, or in my case at the beginning it felt almost like a chore or another thing on my checklist. I was a planner before I had a long distance relationship this only magnified it!
4. It gets harder to let them go, or you to leave every time you see them! Each time we get to spend together, it just gets better and better. I find the tears fall harder and longer each time I find myself alone again. He feels almost a part of me, I have found my best friend in my boyfriend and yet our relationship relies mainly on technology and flight schedules.
5. You know it is something special when you are willing to go the distance for something that you can not see the future for! You hope and pray that someday it will all work out, but no promises can be made. It is in fact a relationship you hold dear to your heart and you can not imagine your life without him/her, so for now you smile through the Snapchats and laugh through the phone and most importantly love with your entire heart.