Getting through the day to day life of being without your other half is one thing, but what about when there are huge obstacles facing you? Anything can happen. One can lose their job, finances can become tighter, your feelings towards each other might lessen to the point you’re reluctant to communicate daily and you might start even realising how shitty the distance truly is – not just because of the lack of physical contact.

Sometimes the distance can get in between two people in more ways than just mileage. And this is quite common. Sure, being in a relationship with someone you love is the most beautiful thing that has happened to you and believe me, it is. But, what about the times you've felt so low that you've both hit rock bottom and you can’t cope any more? What do you do then? The most common answer is obviously – you’d fight for each other right? But sometimes the line between fighting for each other and fighting with each other becomes fuzzy to the point you can’t even remember the last time you had a serious discussion without a fight.  My sister told me something that really stuck with me when Davy and I were going through a stressful patch during the last few weeks. Love isn't supposed to be easy. It’s meant to challenge you, provoke you, make you think about things differently -not just in your own point of view but theirs too-, and it’s meant to make you a better person when you overcome those challenges as a couple.

19 days ago Davy came to visit me for his 21st birthday. It has now been four days since he has been back in The Netherlands. It hurts not being with him again, but this isn’t abnormal for a long distance relationship. The day he had to leave, Sunday, I cried on and off throughout the whole day. Before we left for Plymouth to drop him off for his Megabus, I sobbed my eyes out. It felt like my heart had been ripped out from my chest and smashed with a hammer. Repeatedly.

I think and know this time has been the hardest time realising he has had to go back. I know he’s finding it just as tough as I am. I hate waking up in my single bed, not being able to just roll over and give him a kiss first thing as he flexes his little adorable nostrils whilst he yawns. I look around the house thinking of everything we did together.

This is where we sat and ate dinner every day. This is the spot where we sat on the sofa snuggled up watching the first set of WC group games. That’s where I nutmegged/slide tackled/practised doing keep yuppies with him outside playing football in the garden. That’s where I’d sit on his lap as we would play Watch Dogs together. This is where we stood and hugged, and he repeatedly tickled me. I remember standing here watching Davy make me egg salad, or an omelette. Or when I sat on the sofa as he put plasters on my heels from the blisters of my new shoes I wore to his birthday meal.

Hello everyone, it’s Davy here =)

I haven’t done a blog post in a little while but that’s mainly because for the past few months, I’ve been very busy.

In late October, the contract that I had for the agency that I was working for, didn’t get extended. So ever since then I’ve been looking for a job. It’s been an unsuccessful search but I finally landed a job, sort of. I have been rejected by several companies this half year so I decided to sign back up to an agency. Via that agency, I finally have a job again. I’m going to start working in the catering sector of my local hospital. That also happens to be where I had my last job was with the agency I basically got let go from.

So we've been a part of this long distance relationship thing for quite a long time now.  You'd think we'd have a list of 1000s things to do together whilst in a LDR? Wrong. Most of the days, we just sit on Skype and yap about anything for, on average, 5-8 hours a day. So we've put a short list (that's in no particular order) together on the top five things we like to do, separately and as a couple, with 500 miles between us.

What's your five top things to do in a LDR? Either comment below or send us a tweet ;)

It's been quite the while since we've posted. Not that we haven't been bothered to write, it's just we've been stuck as to what to post about exactly. It's tricky when you're a lifestyle blog surrounding a long distance relationship - you don't really have much to write about other than how much you miss your other half and although it'd be a way to get out the emotions for us, it wouldn't really be fun to read constantly for our readers, now would it? ;)

It always feels weird during the first few weeks after having been together 24/7 again. And it hurts, to say the least. I know I should be used to it by now, or rather we should be used to it by now as time passes etc, but thing is....you never get used to it. You can visit each other a hundred times, and go back and it'll still hurt as much - probably even more - than it did the first time you had to leave each other behind at the coach station or departures.

Lifeguard station at Fistral Beach

Hello there everyone!

Here we are with our blog post about our Valentines!

It was our first ever one where we could celebrate it physically together, rather than just on skype. I stayed at Janey's for nearly a week. From Thursday February 13th until Tuesday February 18th. 

I traveled nearly 525 miles to see my baby again, and it was so worth it. Jane and I stayed in the livingroom of her house, which at night became our bedroom, the biggest in the whole house.

But prior to all that, we hadn't planned for me to come over. Especially since I was job hunting and I had an interview a week prior to us eventually making the final decision of booking the trip to Plymouth, all the way from Amsterdam. But if it was only as close as Plymouth. After arriving there, I tried to get a bus from Bretonside Bus Station to St Austell, where Jane lives, but the seats were sold out. So I had to walk up to Plymouth Train Station, and had to wait for over an hour until I could get on the next train. But so I did, whilst talking to Jane on WhatsApp. When I did finally arrive, Jane was waiting for me at the train station, and we hugged tightly. Then we got in the car to Jane's house, where we cuddled on the sofa. Shortly after midnight, we went to sleep. The first of many wonderful nights with Jane.

Tangled GIF found on Tumblr

Hello, everyone! Well today, I thought I'd bring you up to speed as to what I've been personally doing this last month. Davy will be probably doing his post, which will no doubt include how well he has been doing with his keeping fit / running & cycling - something I'm super proud of him for keeping motivated and up with! ;)

Nonetheless, I shall tell you a bit about how boring I am! I don't go out much, because of my low self esteem - and the fact I just like the comfort of being indoors all nice and warm especially during the winter we had down here in Cornwall. We had constant winds, rain and just terrible weather for the end of December going into January but thankfully the weather has picked up, as have the length of days. I hate it when the days are so short. I dislike the dark, so seeing the sun for a few hours longer is very enjoyable.

Hello there and welcome to our life blog.

This is where we share what we've been up to, our thoughts on any topic that we choose, and just basically our life - though we won't get too up and close personally. There are some things that we'd like to keep to ourselves, but for the majority of this blog we'd like you, the people who happen to come across our little blog, to get to know us - not only as a couple, but the type of people we are.

We decided we'd do a joint venture into life blogging, make it a team effort rather than just a one-man band. That way we don't rely on just an individual doing a post, but both of us can contribute to it if we really want to. But, don't worry, there'll also be posts where it's just one of us blogging - perhaps writing about a book we've read, something we've achieved and that we're proud of, or maybe even just to rant. That's what a life blog is after all is it not? To share thoughts, opinions, and basically to keep a journal of your lives and future endeavours.