They don't. And that is why all these men that work away from home have affairs and/or wonder why their wives are having affairs.

Unfortunately, you only see them for a few days here and there and don't have the opportunity to see how they live on a day to day basis. The distance is part of the fantasy. You romanticize and fantasize about the person and over time, the true nature of the person eventually comes out and the compatability, or lack thereof, manifests. Even if you are truly compatible and love each other, you can't be together very much and life tends to get in the way.

Then there is the reality of jobs and families. Do you uproot everything and move on the hope that you'll marry only to find out that it doesn't work out. You might be leaving a very secure job to find that you can't find work in your new city. You take your kids out of a school and away from friends and family and thrust them into a community of strangers.

The last obstacle is whether or not the long distance person is truly available, single and faithful. Sometimes, your long distance romance is a married or involved person that has no intention of doing anything further than enjoying a dalliance at your expense. How do you know that you are the only person that this person is dealing with? You don't. Distance allows this person to virtually have a person in every port, and you won't be the wiser.

It's rare, if ever, that a long distance relationship ever works out. Believe me, I know.

There is an old Chinese saying: "May you live in interesting times." Sounds like good wishes until you think about what it actually means. Then you realize, it's really a curse.
The phrase, "absence makes the heart grow fonder" is like that Chinese curse. What it really means is, "the further away you are, the better I like you."

u miss eack other and cheat on each other i think

yes sometimes its great to get out for a couple days