about love – The Answer Wall

i’m in a long-distance relationship with someone, and i love them so much and they make me so happy. sometimes i get very scared that we won’t last long enough to see each other. any advice? thank you 😀

One of the hard things about distance relationships, even without Covid, is the tendency to think about the last visit or the next one rather than right now. Somewhat related is the tendency to not want to bring up issues during the time you have together. Both of these are bad for relationship health. Try to focus on what you have now, today, and don’t sweep your problems under the rug. Good luck! It’s hard, but lots of people have made it work.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.