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eatsleepdraw:

The Great Sleep

Charcoal on Paper

For the love of god, people need to stop using new love interests to deal with their insecurities and inability to move on from their exes. How dare you take it out on a stranger? Deal with your own problems before you inevitably pass them onto someone new and undeserving of your shit.

This is a general statement and may or may not be directed toward specific persons.

arpeggia:

It’s More Than Just A Print

by Joseph Egan

There’s something about long distance relationships that make them worth it. Never having been in one, you may assume it’s pretty awful and miserable. Having been in, I’d like to enlighten you!

For one thing, you learn how to have a connection with the other person. You learn how to express more emotion through text, you might be more vocal about your feelings due to lack of confrontation, and aimlessly sitting on webcam with one another is anything but boring. It’s a crazy, indescribable feeling when you finally get to see them. Having “butterflies” is an absolute understatement. It’s just the absolute feeling of joy and surrealism after being apart for so long (or forever, if it originated as an online thing).

I can’t even stress this enough though. It will not work if the other slips up on communication or leads the other to believe they are too busy for them. Putting time aside for them to talk daily is so vital to keeping things close. If you want to be in a relationship with them and are willing to work for it, long distance is more than possible.

Now, a relationship without the distance almost seems like a completely different realm to me. (Keep in mind I’ve only had one serious relationship of each, both fairly long). There are, of course, so many different ways to connect with the other person, and you form a relationship with them that involves actually carrying throughout life together. It’s easy to be aware of the life of your partner in a LD relationship and feel as if you’re a part of it, but you’re not really an integral part in their actual daily life. You’re kind of like a separate ‘life’ to them. At least, that’s how it felt for me. He was there, but when it came to my family and friends, not really. It was just us two in our own us-two world, without any outside influences to mess things up.

I guess they both have their pros and cons. I kind of miss having the weird emotional connection you have when it’s long-distance, but I’d never trade it for being able to hug my boyfriend and go to Toys R Us with him on friday nights.