The Importance of Distance in a Relationship

I was desperate for him to kind of see that the error in his ways and that I, I was the one for him. But Eric and I over the next year became really close. And there was just this day where we were hanging out in his apartment and we were going to go meet up with friends and he said something and my like eyes turned in a heart shape emoji. It can't be because it's complicated with my accent. We dated long distance while I was living in LA for almost five years. How did you like make the relationship work being long distance for five whole years? That's a long time. Like we made an effort to see each other every month, two