Everything is bliss, but then BAM! The gods of the economy and unemployment force this guy to pack up and move elsewhere in search of a job, and his future.
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about long distance relationships and if/how they work. Which has led me to think, "how does everyone else do it?". I mean, what are the odds that you meet that special someone and then are both able to find jobs/careers in the same area. Does having a significant other mean that one will always be sacrificing something, like where they live, for the other? It seems like the ideal situation would be to move somewhere, find a good job, and THEN meet that special someone-- who already happens to live in that same city and already has a job.
I believe that my situation would be less complicated and maybe even easier to deal with if this guy and I had more time together before life intervened. Now we're about six months deep and 600 miles apart. And trying a long distance relationship this early into the relationship seems a little overwhelming; adding more stress to an already stressful world.
Currently, my thoughts on the situation are this: I can only live one day at a time, that's all I can handle. Both the boyfriend and I are not ready for "us" to be no more, so we are taking this one day at a time. I graduate in December, so we know that we will be living away from each other at least until then. And when December comes? Who knows. We will have to cross that bridge when we come to it.
I think that what happens to us when we are the happiest and tests our will makes us who we are. You and Chris will be fine one way or another. There will always be something in the way of your happiness, but what you do in those situations can change into something possibly even better than what you had before.
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