India, Sept. 28 -- Sometimes, a relationship can feel deeply meaningful and still reach a point where the two of you need to go your separate ways. That distance can be painful, confusing, and difficult to understand, especially when you believe there is still something real between you. But separation can also give you space to grow, reflect, and understand what the relationship was asking of you in the first place.

Here are five ways that distance can reveal something deeper about a relationship.

Sometimes, you are separated so you can grow into the person the relationship actually requires you to become. You may have met each other at a time when neither of you was fully ready for the kind of relationship you wanted. The distance giv...