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Coping with long distance relationships, whether with a significant other or a relative, can prove very challenging. Some people move back home or terminate their relationships, while others stick it out. Surely there must be some alternative solution to quitting or barely getting through the process.
A reasonable remedy is to keep yourself busy. Keeping busy does not mean you must be neglectful. Instead, it implies a more structured daily routine leaving you less susceptible to loneliness and a mental wanderer. After work, or college for those who are students, take up a hobby or jump into some project that you’ve always wanted to but never had the time to pursue. Challenge yourself in different ways that will allow for daily personal growth. Thereby, when you schedule the one hour per day or weekend dates to connect with your significant other or loved one, you value that time so much more. Also, you have a greater range of things to discuss to make up for all the time you’ve been busy, and when you finally reunite, the magnitude of the emotional experience is heightened.
Above all you would have invested a lot of time into yourself to catalyze personal growth and that ultimately benefits you and your loved ones alike.
Written by Jamie-Lee Trower
BA (Hons) in English
2nd Year Law Student
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