The Pros and Cons of a Long Distance Relationship

It has been a topic of universal debate whether a relationship can stand the differences caused by the lack of geographical proximity. Modern couples have to stay apart for days, months and even years together at a stretch, mostly due to professional commitments. One half of the couple is always on the move, maybe to work in an overseas branch, and by the time he comes back, his fiancé is off to another state to pursue her medical degree perhaps.

• Surveys and Journals: No wonder the bond starts to loosen, though it would be wrong to assume that it is true for every couple. It is this very point that scientists and psychoanalysts have tried to investigate and each year, a dozen different surveys and research projects are carried out to find out that what keeps a relationship going inspite of the huge distance between the partners and what are the factors that cause a break up, the moment your beloved goes out of your sight. The result of these surveys are publishes regularly in the science magazines and gadgets around the world.
• No Definite Conclusion: It would however be prudent to say at the very outset, that no amount of scientific conditioning can control or fully determine for sure the workings in the deeper recesses of the human mind. Of course, distance plays no role in a relationship if the love and commitment between the partners is as binding as can be imagined. What usually happens in most cases unfortunately, that the partners say good-bye to each other with promises of a long wait and to be together again after a period of time, but things goes wrong in the intervening period.
• The General Idea: Hence, scientists are have tried to find out if the couples meet regularly because they are happy with each other, or they decide to meet and then become happy to see each other. The line of distinction is very narrow but it helps to determine that whether seeing each other causes increased satisfaction among the partners, because if it does not, chances are that the intimacy might reduce once a certain amount of physical distance comes between them for a period of time. The Long Distance Relationships, or the LDRs and the geographically proximal relationships or the PRs, as the scientists call them have therefore concluded, that in most cases distance does not play a vital role in the continuation of a relationship, since if the partners cease to see or care for each other after they get physically separated, the seed of such disruption is sown while they were still near to each other.