A few hours? A weekend? An entire week? How long can you be away from them before one or both of you start to feel like your heart is about to break apart?

But also, what about physical distance? How anxious do you get when you are both separate by space? Suppose one of you goes out of town/state/country. How does that affect your emotional health? Do you both go long distance?

Love to hear from you all.


6 comments

  1. My husband and I were long distance before we married and now we haven’t spent a night without each other. We could if we needed to, I’m secure, my heart wouldn’t split apart, but I’m so much happier when I’m with him.

  2. I travel for work. So distance easily thousands of miles away. Time wise, a day or two is no big deal. But when it gets to four or five days, I get lonely. Longest we’ve been was two and half weeks and it sucked!

    Writing this as an alternate between Reddit and spicy photos of my wife while I wait a few more hours to get home after being gone all week.

  3. lol, Im just trying to get away as far as I can 😂 a d hopefully forever 😑🥴

  4. My husband and I met in college. I went to a different college 3,000 miles away a year into our relationship. We continued our lives and got together again when he graduated. It was a VERY hard time for me with deep depression. I felt like I had lost the love of my life.

    We have had many different times when he goes states away for work or family, usually two weeks to a month. It is very difficult for me and it took a lot of work to be able to feel ok while he was gone. I had severe anxiety and needed meds to really feel normal again. Right now I can go quite a while without seeing him but would prefer to be with him at LEAST on weekends if not more often.

  5. I would welcome that. Never got to the point of wanting them to come back. Longest has been 10 days.

  6. My wife and i work from home so we are together most of the time even if we are not on the same room im still at home with my wife. Also perks aren’t too bad 😉 lots of alone time when kids are at school.

    At first I thought it would suck and we would get tired of eachother but honestly the opposite. Im so used to having her around it feels weird when she isnt. So I don’t think would take me much time to get bummed out.

    We are also pretty respectful of eachothers work day. For 8 hours work comes 1st. If someone is busy you let them work. If you have down time and spend it alone thats fine too. Its your workday. How you relax and handle it is up to you.

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