I was listening to this podcast about long distance relationships and it got me to thinking - Do long distance relationship really last? Can they survive tests and temptations?
In any issue, there are two sides - one is for it, while the other one is...well...not for it.
I do believe that the most important ingredient of love is trust. It is the thread that binds two people together, without which the relationship will just fall apart. As such, each party has to give the other a certain level of trust, maybe a complete-one, in order for a relationship to survive.
This becomes more important if the lovers are living far apart from each other, not being able to meet up and/or communicate with each other online. Distance can really put a strain on the relationship especially when the communication between them is not consistent. There has to be an agreed upon time and day when the call or a chat occurs. Each party has to really be ready to put aside time for such an event.
Likewise, a meeting every now and then, physically, has to happen. That is very important, to say the least, for a relationship to prosper.
Finally, loyalty should be the order of the day. Loyalty is a consequence of trust. That is, if you require that your partner trusts youthen you, yourself must be trustworthy...loyal. It is important that one has to realize that there is a relationship to take care of...to think about...to look forward to.
Although, initially, I have some misgivings about the ability of people to maintain relationships when they live at different places, I also admit that it could work. There is nothing impossible in this world as long as we believe in it and we work hard to achieve it.
How about you? What are your thoughts on this topic?
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