Long distance relationships are hard.  Not everyone can stand up to the challenges presented with a long distance relationship, especially one that has lasted for 4 years.  I am a firm believer that long distance relationships take a certain kind of person to make them work.  My fiance and I have managed to keep it alive and going after four years and I love him more today than the first day, and tomorrow, I’ll love him more than that.

I won’t say that the distance isn’t hard.  Not a night goes by that I don’t wish I could have him close to hold, hug or show affection to.  I miss that part of a relationship the most and I live for those week long visits that we get a couple times a year.

What makes a relationship across the miles even harder is when things that are done to show affection or love don’t work out because of the failure of a 3rd party.  One instance of this was when I went to visit him for the first time.  It was a fiasco to say the least that resulted in me being banned from Canada for a year and being stranded in Washington DC with no money and no way to get back to Oregon.  Only through him borrowing money from his parents and my baby sister offering me a place to stay did I get home.

There have been other ups and downs that have been weathered along the way.  One of these downs occurred this weekend, when the flowers he bought for me for our anniversary and Valentines day arrived without part of the order and the leaves and some of the stems badly damaged.  I called the company responsible for this and they replaced the flowers and sent me the vase.  But the flowers I received instead were a different variety of flower all together.  Almost half the stem count (went from 40 to 25) and half the bouquet was dead, some so much so the flowers were actually falling off the stems.  Coupled with more leaves that were damaged beyond hope and what you have on your hands is an extremely frustrated and upset (tears, hiccups, fighting to not sob) Sarah.  I was and still am devastated.  I was so looking forward to this bright bunch of flowers in my room to greet me each morning and instead, I received not one but two bad bouquets.

I know it seems trivial but when your hundreds of miles from one another, its things like flowers that keep it alive.

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