Long Distance Dating

Hector entered his 1st year of general surgery residency at Davis, CA and it was a very rough year. He had to be on call every 3rd day which kept him so busy. It was hard to call on the phone since he was either asleep or at the hospital. I drove up there twice to visit but I could see that Hector was so exhausted on the verge of burning out. We kind of had a agreement to keep our relationship open dating other people during this time but we did our best. Hector flew down a couple of times but our visits were so short about 1 day then he'd have to go back. Hector started doubting his surgery residency because he saw how surgeons practically lived at the hospital. He began talking about other options like pathology, anesthesiology and even pharmacy. Well, I talked him out of the pharmacy part and he decided to go for an anesthesiology residency. Lo, and behold he was accepted into the UCLA program! So after a very long year, Hector moved to LA. I was living with a friend in Santa Monica so we were only about 4 miles apart. The anesthesiology program was so much better for him...he actually could have a life! Plus he would be around LA for 3 years so he wasn't going anywhere. We started going out to clubs again and everything was cool.