Does Absence make the Heart Grow Fonder?

jeffrin turner
4 min readOct 4, 2017

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The absence of a partner in a relationship can be crucial. Your best friend does not come to the school/college or work for a day, and you start feeling that you are the only person alive on the planet. You are sad all day because without them your life is incomplete.

It is obvious that you will miss them. Is it really? Does absence make the heart grow fonder? Or is it the opposite? There are two sides to this coin. Some people argue that distance makes the heart grow fonder while some argue that the absence of an individual or an object makes the heart forget them. It depends on the person how they take the situation. A lot of factors decide whether a person’s heart will grow fonder or will it forget.

Distance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

When there is a distance between two people there are more chances of you falling in love with your partner because it often brings a lot of positive changes in you or you may already have these which make you stay. Some of those factors are -

#1. Fondness

When the person you love is not around you for a long time, it makes you love them even more. The distance makes you want to be with them more than it would when they are close. The time you do not meet the person, you realize how their presence is so relieving for you, so you become more attached to the person. When you meet after a long span of time you have a lot of things to talk about and to share. Whatever happens in your life during the time you do not meet, has to be shared with the person you love and when you are eager to share it with them, then it means they really matter to you because you love them.

#2. Patience

One of the most beautiful quality you will learn from a long distance relationship is patience. When two people in a relationship whether two lovers or two friends stay in a long distance relationship they learn to become patient. As the distance cannot be covered in minutes or hours, you have to wait for a long weekend to arrive to meet each other, and when the time arrives, you become excited. But the patience you show during that time before the meeting is very long. Waiting for a long time to meet someone you love only shows the kind of relationship you share with them. This patience is then not only helping you in waiting for your partner but also you learn to be patient for other things in life. You have learned that good things take time.

#3. Value

Distance teaches you to value the things you have today because you never know when that thing may go away from you. Like that best friend who was once living under your roof now and then is now somewhere far away. You have learned their value in your life. Your partner is not around you, and you had realized all the efforts they had taken to make you happy when they were with you. You also start valuing people who are around you now. You love them even more now than ever because you do not get enough chances to meet them.

Distance Makes The Heart Room To Wander

When the distance between two people increases, it creates a vacuum. There is enough space created for the relationship to destroy itself, and you gradually forget them when various negative factors emerge like -

more …… Distance Makes The Heart Room To Wander

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jeffrin turner
jeffrin turner

Written by jeffrin turner

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