1200 miles to go...

Distance does not make the heart grow fonder, unless the distance is only for about a weeks time. Long distance is torture. It takes a lot out of a relationship, it creates crates, blame and hurt. Some couples are bigger than it, but most aren't. If you live far enough that it will take more than 12 hours to get there on a whims notice, it's like an early grave. Sometimes the best thing to do, is to end on the best of terms and know that someday you can reunite if your paths cross again. Only the strong will survive. I'm not saying this in a pessimistic manner, but as a realist. As someone who has experienced the best and the worst of long distance relationships and someone who's witnessed a lot of them. It's a word of caution, because sometimes not even the strongest can survive, and as someone trying to survive loving someone so far away, it is the hardest thing in the world.