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" It&amp;#039;s been many weeks since I&amp;#039;ve written, but I have reasons \u2014 not only did my poor computer brave a virus (eeek!), but I&amp;#039;ve been super, SUPER busy with everything in my life here at Rice, especially since getting back from Spring Break back at the end of February. Many parts of my life right now are experiencing changes, both positive and negative. I&amp;#039;m going to attempt to fill you all in on everything within the next few blogs. In fact, just last weekend, I went to Galveston beach overnight with a group of my friends, and I&amp;#039;ll tell you about that trip in another blog post. Here&amp;#039;s a picture from our trip, which was a well-deserved break from the stress I&amp;#039;ve been going through! The biggest news for me now is that I&amp;#039;m single. I chose to break off my long distance relationship (LDR) with my high school sweetheart two weeks after I got back from Spring Break. There were many reasons involved. We dated for close to five months long distance after a two-month break at the beginning of last semester. The issues I had with the relationship were exacerbated not so much by the distance, but by the fact that we are both extremely busy with our respective lives. I think even if my college life were thousands of miles closer to New Jersey \u2014 where my ex goes to school and where I live \u2014 the problems I had with the relationship would have remained. I did see him over Spring Break, but after I got back to Houston following that break, my life at Rice picked up full swing. I had a huge project to work on and a week crammed with activities here at Rice called &amp;quot;Willy Week,&amp;quot; during which I found that I had little to no time to give to my long distance boyfriend. In the days that followed, I realized that my life right here in Houston at Rice was beginning to consume a lot more of my personality and energy than it previously had. Right now, I&amp;#039;m discovering a lot in terms of academics, my life and friendships, and as unfair as it may have been to decide that I no longer wanted to be in a relationship, I&amp;#039;m certain that it would have been even more unfair to stay in a relationship that I couldn&amp;#039;t put my heart and soul into entirely. And so, once I felt our relationship on the rapid downswing, I decided to end it. I hope to become friends with him \u2014 afterall, we know each other so well and I still like him a lot as a person \u2014 but until our respective wounds heal, such a friendship won&amp;#039;t be an option.  I don&amp;#039;t want anyone to be discouraged to not try an LDR \u2014 I stick to the opinions and facts that I revealed in my blog post about the benefits of LDRs. It was fabulous while it lasted, and the effort involved in the relationship surely paid off. In fact, if another person in my life were ever to mean as much to me as my ex, then I would not hesitate to do another LDR if the situation merited one. But right now, I don&amp;#039;t have the time or energy for a relationship, or any boy-related stuff for that matter. Despite the hurt feelings, I certainly have no regrets moving forward! How have you felt after a breakup? Let me know in the comments below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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