Long distance relationships make you hurt in ways you didn't even thing possible. Being in a long relationship is like being in some sort of alternate universe that only you and your significant other are in. Here are 9 things no one tells you about long distance relationships.
1. Congrats! You got a free ticket to an emotional roller coaster ride that never ends!
Some days you'll have good days. And some days you'll have bad days. You and your significant other with go through so much joy one minute and sadness the next.
2. Your laptop and cell phone will become your best friends.
You spend hours upon hours on the phone and on Skype but that never seems to be enough. You fall asleep next to your phone laptop to make sure you never miss a moment. Your data usage is probably going to triple before your eyes. Also, your eyes are probably going to get bad (in my case; worse) than they were before from constantly staring at a phone screen.
3. You're always running out of time. ![]()
Whether it's a time difference or two busy schedules. Time is definitely not on your side.
4... it also becomes the least of your worries.
You lose track of time when you talk to them and an hour feels like a minute. You'll stay up until the sun comes out and you won't even feel the time change.
5. Everything and anything will trigger a memory of your significant other.
I thought i was emotionally strong, I was wrong, time and time again. I can look at someone wearing a hoodie and my ugly crying face will make an appearance because every hoodie reminds me of my girlfriend (I don't think I've seen her in anything but a hoodie??)
6. You start living in your own alternate reality.
They are your person (a second Greys' reference wow). And you are theirs. But they are never actually there. They're always only there through text message, FaceTime, or Skype. You always replay those memories and sweet conversations through your head. It's weird, I know.
7. No one will understand you or sometimes take you seriously.
I used to be one of those people who said that a long distance relationship is the last thing I wanted, that I wouldn't be able to survive with the lack of a physical aspect in the relationship or that I wasn't patient enough or had enough trust for one (personally, now I think that long distance relationships are more loving and trustworthy than a non-long distance relationship).
Your friends will probably not agree with you, or support you (mine definitely don't) because the person you're dating isn't always there. They ask (stupid) questions like, what about being with each other? Do they even exist? Why can't you just find someone closer? It's so frustrating.
8. It's going to feel heavy.
Especially on those bad days. You'll see them accomplish so many things and you can only watch through a screen. You're going to need someone there to support you and hold you sometimes. But as your relationship grows stronger, the bad days will become less and less. And you both learn how to support each other through a laptop screen or a long, love-filled text message.
9. After surviving a long distance relationship, you can, and you will, survive anything.
As a couple, you develop an unbreakable, practically bullet proof bond. All the arguments you have will mean nothing compared to the time you spent hundreds, maybe even thousands of miles apart.
