How to Have a Healthy Long Distance Relationship with Tia and Eric

On today's episode, my sister and her boyfriend, Eric will tell their love story and, how they make their long-distance relationship work. A long-distance relationship is an intimate relationship between partners who are geographically separated from one another.
Welcome Tia and Eric to The Brittney Mack Podcast. Hey! How is your relationship going? Good. Everything is fun and fresh still. How long have you been in the relationship? Three years. How long was it long-distance? Three years. Did you go into the relationship knowing that it was going to be long-distance or? No, not really. It just happened.
It is a complicated story that you are going to explain later. Yes, pretty much. Are you excited to tell your love story? Sure. Yeah. You find a book and begins to discover that is your life. You get to the point that you are now that you turn the page, knowing that you will not be able to change the events to cone.
I would turn the page and read the rest of your story. Because it is about your life story, right? You all love stories. If you Solly, it was really, he will still turn the page, even though you cannot change nothing. I would, I would not do it. So why would you, and why would not you. Well for me, I mean, if I could see the feature, I mean, I would see it.
And even if I cannot change things, the events that will happen, I can always prepare for them like mentally and physically in higher ed. Me on the other hand, I would stay on the page because I am very happy and content with what our relationship is right now. I just do not want to. Rolling the surprises, I would rather it to be yeah, like a surprise and keep it fresh and juicy and not bored the story.
I do not think knowing what boring, it is just like in their mom and you will be like, wow, I can revive it. It is going to happen. But you are still going to experience, those events. It is going to surprise you where you know, what is going to happen, but you cannot. Experiencing a band versus seeing an event is different.
Like being shot versus seeing someone get shot this totally different, but you won't be surprised like, you know, you are going to get shot, but you cannot stop them from Hackney to, you are not going to be surprised like, Oh, I know I am going to get shot. I got shot. You are going to be surprised of the emotion that you feel, the pain that you feel of that shot wound is not going to stop.
It is not going to change the bag. You know, it is going to hurt. They are going to react the same. You know, it is going to hurt, you know, that you know where you are going to get shot at this point. So, what, so you are not surprised being shot and sure, love stories. This is going to be going on for the rest of your life.
If you get shot. There is kind of like, okay, they happened now, you over with it, but this is kind of like, you really know everything I want to, can you really read open to who's going to die phrases? I mean, you know, men died. Relationship. Yeah.
Fortunately. Yeah. So, with this whole little, little story, I would like to hear it. How did you guys meet? Well, I can start that off. Um, Eric chime me whenever you feel that you should. But, um, so I remember we met, um, my freshman year of college and it was his junior year of college, um, a Christian brothers university in 2015.
And, um, apparently, we had a lot of classes together. But I never noticed him until one day he held the door open for me. And like the thing that he said made me feel like he was getting smarter, having like a little attitude with me. So, I, at that point I was like, oh my gosh, I did not like this dude right here.
And I did not say thank you to him. I did not even address him or anything. I said, thank you to his friend, because if they'll point out, like you do not deserve to hear what I have to say, because if I do say something, then we were going to have a problem. Yeah, he was trauma. I would...