Why Cross Country Relationships Never Ever, Ever Work (Except Once They Do)

I’ve a confession to create, but i want you to just keep it between us, okay?

The movie is loved by me Love really — think it’s great. Actually i really do. I am aware that this isn’t probably the most thing that is masculine acknowledge, but i am ok with this because i am merely a sucker for that film. I do not also mind that Hugh give is with in it.

That I am most drawn to is the narrative between Jamie (the spurned lover/writer) and Aurelia (the beautiful Portuguese woman who takes care of the summer house where Jamie writes his murder mystery novel) although I am a big softie for all of the varied (though mostly archetypal) story lines in that film, the one. The love why these two share is really so effective so it transcends time, location, as well as language and (spoiler alert!) Jamie eventually hops a final minute journey to Portugal where he professes their love and proposes to Aurelia as you’re watching entire town on xmas Eve, and they’ll presumably live joyfully ever after in a choice of England or Portugal.

One of many reasons that Jamie and Aurelia’s relationship is pure dream (good dream brain you, but fantasy nonetheless) is the fact that we all (well, at least people like me, who love movies like Love Actually) dream about that it is based on the idea that long-distance relationship can be magically transformed into the perfect domestic relationship.

In true to life, long-distance relationships do not work. The main reason they are a fantasy that they don’t work is that, like Jamie and Aurelia’s relationship. Continue Reading