LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS
Love, from a distance
How to keep going when you’re hundreds of miles apart By Lindsay McCown Lindsay and Casey enjoy a sunset picnic on a ranch in New Mexico.
In 2010, I met a guy. His name was Casey and he was smart, handsome, laughed at my weird jokes and shared my borderline obsessive love of macaroni and cheese. We had so much in common, except for one thing: he lived in Colorado, and I lived in California. 18
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F or most people, including myself at the time, that single fact would have been the end of any budding romance. The logical side of me thought of every reason it wouldn’t work. I stayed awake at night thinking about the horror stories I’d heard about long-distance relationships—a phrase people, even me, said with such disdain—and how hard this could be if we kept going.
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But we couldn’t stop. In fact, we only grew closer. Eventually, the time came to make some big choices. When we decided to move forward as a couple, there was no dramatic revelation or airport moment where we declared our unconditional love while he spun me around. For me, the one who had been fighting the idea of this kind of relationship, it happened one day, very quietly, when I looked up from my work and knew not having him in my life was simply not an option. I knew it would take some work, and I was ready.