Love is a natural element with the greatest power that can overshadow, maintain or adapt to any circumstances. It is the strongest of all emotions.

So no one can stop it from occurring or prevent it from happening. Everyone needs to be in a relationship with someone very special to their heart.

However, there are countless challenges involved in being together with someone. There's no relationship without a single problem.

And today, we shall look at the stages of a long-distance relationship. Everyone at some point in time may find themself in this kind of relationship and there's a need to be aware of those stages so we can keep patient to make it stand at all times.

So, here are the 7 stages of a long-distance relationship;

Decision

This is the first stage in a long-distance relationship.

Here, the partners begin to take decisions based on the needs putting them to be far away from one another. And probably why and how they find themselves in this situation.

Mostly, partners don't expect to be distanced from their loved ones but circumstances do where they've no other options than to accept and cope with it.

And it becomes very difficult at times when you happened to enjoy the moments you always share together living close.

There are many factors that could lead to this such as education, work, health problems, etc. One may have to go away for further studies or job relocation or transfer or anything uncontrollable.

Parting

Parting is the second stage in a long-distance relationship.

Before this stage, partners have already gone through the decision-making stage thoroughly and are now aware of what's going to happy.

And they're to involve themselves in participating more commonly together before they're distanced away.

During this time, they(the partners involved) are to set roles for themselves as well as how to always keep each other in mind not to cause problems in the relationship.

In case they're already blessed with children, then they're to involve them where necessary in sharing this moment together and how they're going to miss one another as well as how to live happily. Individual responsibilities are also well defined during this time.

Transition

This stage comes in after going through the decision-making as well as the parting stage.

Here, the partners are already away from one another and started experiencing the realities of a distance relationship.

If communication is possible, partners try to call each other sharing how they're missing them and how each is coping with the situation. At times, they may chat using text messages when the environment or their jobs aren't allowing them to talk on the phone.

During the transition stage, partners may experience denials or rejections. This mostly happens when the mode of communication, responsibility, etc. is going down than expected or used to be.

This may cause lots of emotions in either of the partners making them move to the next stage of the distance relationship circle.

Realization

Realization is the fourth stage in a long-distance relationship.

This is the stage where partners, mostly one side goes deeper into the situation after encountering more challenges in the transition stage.

They begin to think deeper into the situation and may be feeling more lonely as well as seeing life without a closer partner as useless and meaningless.

Here, they also take a more closer look and thought at other close partners enjoying moments together and if those close relationships are showing less or no challenges, they may end up seeing no importance in their relationship and will begin to think of having someone close.

And continual thinking or staying in this condition will cause them into the next stage of a long-distance relationship.

Jealousy

Too much realization of their condition of staying far away and thinking more about the success of close relationships will result in jealousy.

This stage indeed is the critical stage in a long-distance relationship.

As the jealous partner begins to feel more envious about other partners seeing them always together so the strength of their relationship weakens.

Seeing other close partners always involving themselves in completing tasks, going to parties, occasions, funerals or festivals together may increase the rate of jealousy. 

And this will put the jealous partner in a position where he/she sees no value, importance, or meaningfulness in being in that distance relationship.

Doubt

Doubt is the sixth stage in a long-distance relationship.

Here, the jealous partner involve begins to have more doubts about their distance relationship giving him/her more reasons to call off the relationship.

At this stage, the unhappy partner may try to cause violence taking into consideration many unnecessary factors. They may be doing this and will continue blaming the other that he/she is the cause of their actions.

The unhappy partner of the relationship may also try to bring a series of misunderstandings which will create more impressions on the negative emotions of their distance relationship.

These actions will call for the final stage.

Validation

Validation is the final stage in a long-distance relationship.

The continuity or divorce of the relationship is determined here.

Mostly, both partners individually and secretly try to find the causes of all the happenings by making spies of their partner's movements. They try many methods to see if the other partner is making suspicious movements prior to the situation.

They may also try seeking advice from friends, marriage experts, family members, etc. in order to make the relationship stable by understanding the situation of them being together more.

Sometimes, partners involved in this situation try to quench and make the situation calm by themselves so they can continue living together without needing a third party's involvement.

And if all the above means fail as jealousy and doubt continue to reign, the relationship may come to an end.

Note that not all distance relationships suffer or go through the above stages. When they understand their union as well as the reasons for them being away, they may stay comfortable at all times.

And if you find yourself in this situation or want ways to always keep your love alive in a distance relationship, click here to read, and don't forget to share your ideas below this post.

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