"You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,"

"You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you," -John Green

      I hate when this happens. Okay, if someone likes you, don't push them away. Why should you? In Hazel's case in 'The Fault in Our Stars' she has cancer and she thinks that she is a grenade. She doesn't want a lot of people to miss her and be sad if she happens to die. I can understand this because my grandpa Harry wouldn't let us grandkids visit him when he went into the hospital. He knew that night that he would die from his cancer and he didn't want us to be around and see him when it was his time.  My grandma Jo didn't want my siblings and I to know that she had breast cancer. It's been a couple months since she had surgery and she doesn't know that I know.

   Increasing the distance between you and he person you like isn't going to make them like you any less. People have successful long-distance relationships all the time and they are happy. Sure they miss their significant other but that only strengthens their bond when they are together.

   Unless the distance is a break up kind of distance, then it (distance) should make you want them more. I'm sure people feel sad when they can't hold their lover in their arms and cuddle with them, but doesn't that make it all the more worth while for when you finally get to see them in person again (or even for the first time ever?)

   Personally, I haven't been in this situation because I have trust issues a d I wouldn't be able to be in a healthy long-distance relationship. I applaud those who can be and I love the fact that they are able to keep a bond like that going. Especially in military families. My cousin Danielle got married in November of 2913 and her husband is stationed out of the country. He came home for a couple f weeks, they got married and he had to go back to base. Now, she was kind if forced by the Military to remain here at home, but she waited another 4-5 months to be with him again and now she is the happiest I've ever seen her. That distance only made her love him more.  So don't be afraid of a long distance relationship, in the end you'll only love them more.