How to Keep Trust and Love For Your Long-Distance Obligation

At The Eggplant, we get it. It’s difficult to maintain the love, trust, passion, and the respect needed to sustain a fulfilling relationship with your long-distance obligation. We’re here to help. Let’s take a classic situation, one I’m sure we’ve all found ourselves in. They want to FaceTime you. Of course they do. What else do they do? Not important. How do you balance fulfilling this burden while maintaining a healthy balance and life of your own? How do you make sure that they know how much they mean to you? If your answer was to not pick up the phone you’re absolutely right.

Now, let's go a little bigger. You’ve been separate from your obligation for a while now, and they want to visit you in college. Of course they do. Why would they wanna be at their college? They probably go to UF. Not important. If your chore asks to see you, how do you respond? Perhaps you surprise them and visit them at their campus? Maybe you clear out your weekend plans to be able to spend the most amount of time with them. Wrong! If you thought maybe not responding was a good idea, we at The Eggplant would like to let you know that you’re starting to get the hang of this. 

Okay, your liability is beginning to ask why they haven’t seen you in so long. Is it possibly because they won’t leave you alone? Not that they would have the awareness to even consider this. But the two of you are meant for each other, so let's figure this out. We’ve got 2 options on the table here. Option 1: You meet up with them. You acknowledge that things have been off for a while now, but that you’d love to stay with them. You apologize and share a heartfelt embrace. Option 2: Hit that beautiful block button and run free. I think we both know which option is the best for the two of you. Enjoy the single life.