So there's that optimistic way that everyone addresses you when they find out your boyfriend is (basically - I mean, let's be honest here) leaving you for another city, and it goes something like, "I think long-distance is fun; you get all the good things when you're together, good sex and happy outings and going out to dinner and stuff, but they're not around all the time. You still get plenty of me time." And I just want to say that I KNOW that this is the way the story goes, because I've said it. A lot.
But there's definitely a difference between being in a really committed relationship where work or family dictates that, for some period of time, you have to be separated, and
