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Catapult | Every Immigrant Is in a Long-Distance Relationship | Sheon

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Whenever I used to tell people I was in a multiyear long-distance relationship, they shared the kind of sympathy that must have been given to army wives during World War II: “Hang in there, you’ll get through this.” Long-distance relationships are generally seen as a degraded form of the “normal” state of things. In describing them, we often employ the same survivalist language lent to describing chronic diseases. Couples needed to “endure” and “survive” their period of separation. However, the pandemic has shown what a reductio ad absurdum of long-distance relationship looks like: a no-distance relationship where couples are entrapped in the same space. And judging from the recent quarantine literature, it’s no recipe for happy coexistence. Some of the New York Times’s Modern Love stories in the early days of the pandemic read like survival manuals; advice columns became a catalogue of relationship postmortems. But distance, though it may be physically distancing, need not make a coup

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