The Cost of Love
Being in a long-distance relationship sucks. You stay tethered to your phone like a lovesick teenager to keep the lines of communication open. There’s no calling up your significant other and asking him to come over and make out on a whim.
And now it’s becoming prohibitively expensive for couples to travel and get that much-needed face time.
Not since Romeo and Juliet has there been a tale of such woe.
Long-distance couples half-rooted in the Boston-area. . . say gas prices and airfare (not to mention a wave of canceled flights) are leaving them broke, emotionally exhausted, and seeing less of each other. No more last-minute jaunts to New York to surprise their partner after work. No more quick flights to Philadelphia to see their significant other’s smile. Travel is too expensive these days for spontaneity and frequent visits.
First the terrible economy limited the amount of rice we can buy. Then we had to ditch our SUVs. Now you take away our boyfriends and girlfriends?
No wonder the President’s approval ratings are so bad—everybody’s cranky because they’re not getting any.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Egad, this whining is getting tedious. Damn near free long distance. Video conferencing. The whiner, (who works for a non-profit of course), complains about the choices made and financial upshot thereof. (That Gratz College master’s is sure to open some doors!)Welcome to the world, kid. Some of us would love to have your problems.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:24 am
How things change! In the sixties, people who could afford air travel were labelled “Jet Setters” and we were in awe of them. The rest of us poor mortals, unable to meet that Greek tycoon in Monte Carlo for the weekend, had to settle for living and loving in the same city.
Deregulation brought air travel to everyone, and we came to expect those $49 tickets…even if they weren’t profitable to the airlines offering them.
Looks like we’ll once again be making some life choices, doesn’t it? Seems we can’t work at Burger King wages, live in Boston, and commute to New York for a weekend with our loved one. Or live an hour outside the city because it’s cheaper and drive our SUV in every day.
New jobs, new loves, new lives…the only thing constant is change, isn’t it?