Are Long Distance Relationships Doomed To Fail? HOW TO MAKE THEM WORK
What is a long-distance relationship?
If you live in Los Angeles, it might be someone who lives 10 miles away because that’s one hour of traffic. From my perspective, if you have to travel one hour or longer, then chances are you’re in a long-distance relationship.
Here’s the thing, given that relationships, when two people live right around the corner, have a hard enough time to make the relationship work. One must admit that distance creates challenges in getting to know one another.
In today’s episode, we will explore the DEEPER conversation about what’s needed to make a long-distance relationship work, or is it doomed?
Let’s talk about… Are Long-Distance Relationships Doomed To Fail? HOW TO MAKE THEM WORK
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Hello Jonathon,
Just listened to your podcast about long distance relationships, and I have to say that your advice was “spot on” correct. Thanks for all the great commentary and observations on the issue.
Years ago, I developed a long distance pen pal friendship with a widower who I met in an online grief support group, after the untimely death of my husband. We had a lot of common interests and views of life, and a solid friendship was formed. We gave each other advice about various things, commiserated about topics related to grief, and shared life stories. He was 25 years older than myself, and early on we agreed that it would never be a romantic relationship. We maintained this pen pal friendship for sixteen years. During that time, I went through a time of experimenting with dating, and he was supportive of that and offered advice when asked. My pen pal friend passed away two years ago, and I do miss him. Still, I have mixed feelings about the time we spent writing to each other. In a way, it filled a space that might otherwise have been more open to the idea of meeting a new person. I love to write, so having a pen pal provided opportunity to do what gives me joy…writing. Part of that time, I also had a pen pal in South Africa who was a widowed woman whose husband and brother-in-law had both been killed by a roving band of men who were intent on taking back the land from people. Her stories were tragic, in part, but also so very interesting. She and I were both still raising children when our husbands died, so we shared stories about our children. I also had another pen pal who was more locally situated, and I admired her positive spirit after the death of her husband because her attitude was so inspiring. As a somewhat shy person, it’s easy to have pen pal friendships, but you are right to say that internal work must be done to figure out how to fix childhood and adult traumas in order to have healthy face-to-face relationships. I’m currently trying to work on things.
Thank you for the interesting podcast on long-distance relationships.
WOW! Thank you
Yes, LDR, 80% failed, there several factors:
.either one can pretend who they really are?? Fake news just impressing each other
. men mostly doing catfishing to find a new victim ( it could be on ladies too)
.his present relationship could be boring, like experiencing midlife crisis on their 40’s.
.suddenly surfing online chat2 found a human starting flirting..first like sweet talks, then even b4 the intimacy, on few wks both excited, one became serious, the man will go along with the flow, then drift away, once he got fix by the lady.
Now he is a new guy. He’ll opened up that you completed him because of he learned how to improve his self esteem.
Mostly happened on artist, he gets tons on chat2 from his fans on YouTube. He’ll
answer their comments, plenty of fooling around fans n artists, in particular in Europe. I’ve not seen yet here in U.S., our artists are more discipline.
Note: i agreed firmly ldr will never work, because of lying n cheating, either one of them, or they got bored., because no common goals, they’re not investing in relationship…//
exactly