Distance Essay: The Effects Of Distance On Relationships

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The Effects of Distance on Relationships In most relationships, people meet through school, work, or they could even live by each other, but regardless, their significant other is usually somebody they are used to seeing on a daily basis. However, every once in a while some couples meet over the internet, at a church camp, or maybe even through a few friends and the distance doesn’t keep their growing passion for each other apart. Distance can come in many forms depending on the couple’s situation. For example, Jeremy and Kami are just your average high school couple even though they don’t attend the same school. They actually live 2 hours away from each other and maybe only get to meet up once a month. Now, on the other hand, we have John …show more content…

It’s more than just lust. The separation makes sex mainly about making love where in most cases, people only make it about self-pleasure. The desperation to make love depends on the couple and the amount time they have gone without being together. With my experience, a couple that is committed to this type of relationship tends to focus on the emotion involved in sex rather than the lust. Since you may go weeks or months without seeing them, sex isn’t just a casual thing you are used to doing unlike a normal couple that sees each other every day. If you had the opportunity to see each other on a daily basis, it’s common for those couples to be likely to have sex more often because they actually have the chance to unlike people that are apart. That’s why distance couples have a different type of connection sometimes during …show more content…

They’re “two types of long-distance relationships (LDRs; both those without face-to-face contact and those with some face-to-face contact). (Dainton & Brookes, sec. 49.2)” LDRs without face-to face contact are usually military relationships or can be two people that live far away from each other. These couples go an extended amount of time without having any physical contact at all. LDRs with face-to-face contact are usually couples that aren’t even apart but only interact with each other every so often. All of their situations are difficult, but all of these couples experience majority of the same feelings because they are each separated from their partner in one way or another. One of the best effects that distance has on a relationship is the potential to make a romance last and to keep going. Most average relationships end after a certain amount of time because the other person may become too attached or clingy because there is not much separation. With being separated though, it can bring couples closer and I can prove this because my relationship is an

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