Laughing Long Distance

As the saying goes: ’Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it” (Thomas Fuller [<a href=https://www.quotes.net/quote/40031>https://www.quotes.net/quote/40031</a>;]). Yes, you can be in love with someone who lives far away, but that’s when another well-known saying comes into play: “Out of sight, out of mind”.

Long distance relationships have a very high failure rate (<a href=https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/long-distance-relationships-are-more-successful-than-you-think/>https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/long-distance-relationships-are-more-successful-than-you-think/</a>;). The ties that bind us are, as well as spiritual, emotional, and mental, also physical.

In the least crude of examples, how important is it to laugh together with your beloved, and to hear their laugh; to feel their breath chuckling and see their stomach moving as they giggle; to have their body shaking, and the shake passing to you as you share this sacred moment?

Well, I think it’s very important indeed. An LDR makes this sort of interaction hard.