“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” is one of those obnoxious and inspirational quotes everyone seems to tell couples starting out on their first long distance relationship. Oh, your boyfriend of three years is going to college out-of-state? You will be ok. Distance makes the heart grow stronger. It would be a nice sentiment if it wasn’t accompanied by that nagging thought in the back of the speaker’s mind (that they are much too polite to actually say): I give them four months. Six, max. My sister, Ryosuke, his niece, his nephew, and I on Skype However, a study in the Journal of Communications has shown that absence might truly make the heart grow fonder and that couples who participate in a healthy long-distance relationship can have more meaningful interactions than couples who see each other daily. Apparently you can judge how meaningful an interaction is. How novel. Science aside, my husband and I both agree that the nearly two years of long distance before marriage did the most to strengthen our relationship. Or, more specifically, we have both decided that we communicated most efficiently when we lived in different cities. When we had to work for it (Skype, email, [...]
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