Wondering what kills long-distance relationships? Lack of communication, trust issues, infrequent visits, and external pressures can all contribute to their demise.Any relationship is hard work. Long-distance relationships are work that is several times harder.
However, each of you can probably tell at least one story about a couple who have been happy for a long time, despite the fact that the lovers are separated by thousands of kilometers. We hope that our article will help those who may have started to get a little tired and despair. Think positively and be happy!.
Maintain a positive attitude, do not allow yourself to focus on the negative aspects of a long-distance relationship for a minute. Yes, you are far from your “candy”, but you can pay more attention to work, hobbies, your interests. In addition, such relationships force you to constantly invent new ways of communication, they reveal your creative side, which will have a positive effect on all aspects of life. Your positivity will be transmitted to your loved one, you will feel each other’s support.
What Kills Long-Distance Relationships.
One of the easiest ways to destroy even the most wonderful relationship is to poison it with mistrust and jealousy. When you start a long-term long-distance relationship, you should be prepared for the difficulties associated with it. You need to be a priori confident in the honesty and innocence of your partner.
If your loved one went to a party with friends, you don’t need to interrogate him afterwards about why he didn’t call when he got home, didn’t send an SMS, why he stayed so late and why he didn’t pick up the phone in the morning. You don’t need to think that a relationship puts your normal life on hold. Don’t give up on entertainment, meet with friends, enjoy life
- the increase in jealousy and loneliness, especially in those moments of intense sadness or joy, which cannot be shared physically;
- avoiding confrontation and arguments, so as not to ruin moments together;
- the increase in stress, given the time and costs that must be sustained to organize the meetings;
- Feeling misunderstood. One disadvantage is the lack of understanding from many people around you who have no idea what you are experiencing. The path you have taken is not easy and not everyone will fully understand it.
- Communication. What is essential in a relationship, communication, becomes more difficult with distance. You will only have phone calls and video calls to tell each other about your day and the news. Unfortunately, this is not always enough, because it clearly does not perform as well as a face-to-face conversation.
- Loneliness. In many moments of your day you will think about the other person and how much you would like to share a particular moment with them. Loneliness is felt more strongly in the evening, when you have no one to talk to before falling asleep (if you are a woman, another disadvantage is not being able to warm your cold feet with their legs).
- Envy. Unfortunately, there are times when seeing other couples will make you feel bad. And it is precisely in those moments that you will see them everywhere: at the supermarket, on the subway, while you go for a run… How envious.
- Stress to be able to see each other. Not only do you see each other so little, but organizing it becomes very stressful. First you have to be able to find a date that works for both of you and on which it is worth seeing each other. Then you have to be able to book the tickets without going crazy because of unpredictable price changes, checking on all the existing sites to find the best connection.
- Time and costs. Not only the organization, but also the constant travel to visit each other will be a great waste of time. In fact, many hours are spent on buses, trains or planes, depending on how far away you are. Another factor not to be underestimated is the costs, which represent a large portion of your expenses throughout the course of the long-distance relationship.
Don’t try to control your partner. As long as you are both interested in the relationship, you will support it. But as soon as one of you decides that the relationship is not right for him or her, or simply that another person appears in his or her life, the relationship will end, and it doesn’t matter whether you live 3,000 km away from each other, in the same city, or in the same room.