This week I delve into why some people find long distance relationships particularly attractive.

Plus I offer up some tips for dealing with a bully in the workplace.

I'm Natalie Lou, a writer based in Southeast London who is dedicated to helping people to improve their emotional and relationship literacy.

Let's kick this off.

What's the attraction with long distance relationships?

Thanks to dating websites or... relationships. Skype and Snapchat and

Snapchat and various forms of instant messenger and Twitter and the list goes on

it has never been so easy to be in a long distance relationship.

If this were, I don't know, 15, 20 years ago or beyond,

then you had to go in the personal ads in the back of a paper or you

would have basically had to meet someone when you were out and about who was maybe visiting

town who you got to know and then from there it was like let's correspond by you know snail

males you know like pen and paper in a letter or by phone and that's how a long distance

relationship might come about.

You also find as well that sometimes you're in a relationship where you see each other regularly

and then for whatever reason something happens and one of you has to move somewhere it might be for work it might be

something to do with family and as a result that's how a long distance relationship

comes about now just like any relationship so one that's actually in your same area code

or certainly within an hour or two's traveling distance,

a long distance relationship may or may not work,

but there are very specific reasons why distance relationship

that doesn't go anywhere. Long distance relationships are very attractive to people who really, deep down, do not want to be in an available, so as in emotionally available, with intimacy, you know, vulnerability and

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