My name is Will DeFrees and this is the Sunday Scariest Podcast.

You're here for the Sunday Blues.

On today's episode, we're going to talk about long distance relationships,

charcoal drinks, and the absolute worst things to lose when you're drunk.

They say distance makes a hard-grow funder, but from my experience, that's not entirely true.

Distance is largely morvining convenience in anything else.

The driving, the facetimes, the coordinating, it all adds up to this anxiety-inducing beast

that makes you sometimes wonder why things can't just be easier.

Admittedly, I just made it through a year of living three hours apart from my girlfriend.

Too far to drive every weekend, but close enough that you can feel guilty not doing so.

Knowing for months beforehand that we were going to do this, it was a dark cloud that hovered over us.

How often will we see one another?

Who's going to do the majority of the visiting?

Am I really going to have to start shopping in the Meals for one section at the grocery store again?

It's safe to say that we knew it wouldn't be easy.

Absence makes a hard-grow funder doesn't take into account not being able to tell the tone of someone's eye message

or what it feels like to not be able to abandon your dinner plans and go on a romantic date all on a whim.

Instead, you're faced with watching Netflix alone spending rushed weekends and cities you're not familiar with,

and the inevitable goodbyes that weigh on you.

While there are no hardened fast rules for keeping your relationship alive,

there are certain actions you can take in order to ease the stress you encounter alone.

The first is fairly simple. Face time.

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