You feel sick to your stomach listening to her cries over the phone.

Let me paint you a picture…

You’ve been KILLING it at work. Your boss is noticing and people are starting to treat you differently.

The occasional Sir turns into an everyday thing – and you can’t remember the last time you had to open a door.

You’re respected.

Every night you come home from work to call your girlfriend you’re deeply in love with.

You had to leave her back home a few months ago because you got a job offer you couldn’t refuse.

Although the relationship is serious you aren’t ready to take the jump of living together.

Tonight’s phone call is different than the others – you can hear it in her voice that something is bothering her.

You ask her what’s wrong – and she breaks down. All the emotions she kept holding back, comes crashing down.

You feel sick to your stomach listening to her cries over the phone.

All you want to do is hold her in your arms telling that you’re there.

But that’s the problem, you aren’t there.

This is why long-distance relationships don’t work:

You only involve each other in the good times. But it’s the stressful BS that goes on throughout your day-to-day that is missing.

Why is this important?

We are social beings, meant to help each other – and when that is lost in a relationship it quickly turns into a friendship.

Before you know it, what was once a strong and healthy relationship is now falling apart.

Having a partner means having someone through thick and thin. How is this possible when you’re miles apart?

You have no idea how they handle their issues and even worse you don’t know what those issues even are.

So if you do finally move in with each other – you get a crash course on who they REALLY are.

This amount of stress is why 90% of long-distance relationships end up failing. 

Be a part of the 10% -

If you’re truly dedicated to your partner you need to make time to be with each other.

Plan a week where you’re both in the same house while the other works. Take this time to get to know them on a deeper level & pay attention to how they handle stress.

This will take your mind off the distance (while simultaneously easing the tension of moving in together in the future).

It’s going to take work to be in that 10%.

But with a little bit of hard work on both ends it can be done.

You got this!

Always the best,

Cleopatra

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