Any relationship is difficult. Add distance between you and it’s going to take a little more work.
But when you care about someone enough distance is merely a mathematical complication of the mind. Sometimes just showing up adds the little bit of surprise that will keep the relationship alive. 
“Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends. It’s going to cost you being liked, and understood. But it doesn’t matter. Because the people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side, and you’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward. Instead of liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of understood, you’re going to be seen. All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.” — Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You
