Long,Short-Distance Relationships

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of ''long-distance''relationships and how difficult they are to maintain. But what if you happen to meet someone you fall for and start to date and even though you two live in the same state, you guys still don't live close to each other. I like to call it a short-distance relationship. Short-distance relationships need as much effort, work, time, and extra tender loving' care as long-distance and no distance at all. Generally, all relationships need efforts from both people. But back to short-distance relationships.

Currently, I have a friend in one of these "short-distance" relationships and honestly I don't know how she survives and how he survives. They've known each other going to 3 years and they have been dating going on 2 years. Mind you this is a very close friend on mines{{and she wanted me to kinda talk and see what ya'll think}}. They live an 1 and some minutes away from each other. But depending on traffic it might take 2 hours. He's the one with the car in the relationship so he mainly comes to see her, But she realized "i hate not being able to do my part in the relationship". Does anyone ever feel bad because things out of their control hinders their efforts in the relationship?? I mean it is true that if a guy wants you, then he would do any and everything in his power to see you, be with you, Blah Blah yadda yadda yadda lol. But you cant expect a guy to do EVERYthing. He cant just be putting in 98% and you are only putting in 2% and sometimes not even that. Instead of making him come see you all the time, maybe you could switch up and go see him or meet him half way, or have a friend take you to go see him, or meet at a mall. It's basically all about compromise. No matter what type of relationship you're in its all about COMPROMISE!!... (so i guess) But its not easy putting in three yrs in a guy and distance hits you like a bitch..Crazy as it sounds...talked to my girl and she totally gets it...really don't see how to maintain a healthy relationship...when u cant even see your Bf or Gf.
Hope i made sense

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