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Created on: October 12, 2010 Last Updated: October 21, 2010
Love is the utmost beautiful and powerful feelings that existed in human being. Of course, love has limited the distances and crossing the boundaries. So does the long distance relationship. It really can work. Perhaps if we take a look closely, there is nothing different between a long distances relationship and short distances relationship except that you are apart miles away from your love one. Even I have experiences in a long distances relationship for almost 2 years and it work. We spend time together knowing each other for few months before we were apart for long distances relationship due to living in different places.
Have had a relationship with someone miles apart has a lot of challenge especially if you have different background and culture. When you are in a long distance relationship, some people do have the perception that this kind of relationship wouldn't work. Why? Many reasons can be related. Some of it is because you can't meet each other often and didn't know what your partner is actually doing right now. However, if we think about it, even if you have a short distance relationship, sometimes some people didn't actually have a clue of their partner activities. Hence, the problem is not the distances but depend on the people and how they manage the relationship that they were in.
Keeping a relationship is not as hard as we thought if we follow the simple rules. Yet, I didn't mean it is easy enough by just simply follow the rules. Thus,effort is still needed. Most of us did have listen about it over and over again but it is true. Before we look at these rules, it is essential to share to people that the first thing to do is to love yourself and your partner as the way you are. This means that you and your partner can really accept each other whether it is the individual quality or the bad thing in oneself and try to bring out the best for each other.
A strong relationship need to have trust and commitment. This two attributes is really important in a relationship. Love is not just limit for a person to feel it but in order to survive in a relationship; we need to build mutual trust and commitment for each other. Moreover, trust and commitment reflects on how well you know your partner and it is a start for a long term relationship. When you nurtured trust and commitment, you are ready to move your relationship to the next level.
People that have a long distances relationship need to take care of themselves. This
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