{"id":5516,"date":"2018-12-17T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2018-12-17T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:44:27","slug":"i-met-the-love-of-my-life-here-but-hes-leaving-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/17\/i-met-the-love-of-my-life-here-but-hes-leaving-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"I met the love of my life here but he&#8217;s leaving at Christmas. <3 What do I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5497\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5497\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-18-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"I met the love of my life here but he's leaving at Christmas.\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-18-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-18-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121718-18.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I met the love of my life here but he&#8217;s leaving at Christmas. &lt;3 What do I do?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If he&#8217;s the love of your life, you stick with him, even at a distance. Relationships at a distance can be hard, because of what you&#8217;ll miss: touch. And you&#8217;ll have to work hard on communicating, but technology helps. Once upon a time, you&#8217;d have had to depend on letters. I recommend reading letters of famous couples, like John &amp; Abigail Adams, or J.P. Sartre &amp; Simone de Beauvoir. And then enjoy the luxury of Skype, Facetime, etc. Or did you mean you only just met him, and you&#8217;re not an item yet? In that case, throw all caution to the winds &amp; tell him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he&#8217;s the love of your life, you stick with him, even at a distance. Relationships at a distance can be hard, because of what you&#8217;ll miss: touch. And you&#8217;ll have to work hard on communicating, but technology helps. Once upon a time, you&#8217;d have had to depend on letters. I recommend reading letters of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/17\/i-met-the-love-of-my-life-here-but-hes-leaving-at-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I met the love of my life here but he&#8217;s leaving at Christmas. <3 What do I do?\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}