Coming home from work and seeing your favorite person can instantly brighten your day. TikTok user @dr_jk_ recently posted a heartwarming video of his girlfriend's excitement every time he picks her up from the train station. She travels to work by train and needs a ride to and from the station. Her adorable reactions every time he picks her up inspired him to compile these happy moments into a video to share on social media.
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The video begins with the floating caption that reads, "Picking up and dropping off my girlfriend every day for the train." In the opening frames of the clip, we see the man recording his girlfriend coming towards the car with a happy face, almost hopping in joy. The clip further transitions to another day that shows a visual of his girlfriend hastily walking towards the car with a wide smile on her face, quickly reaching for the door handle. In the next frame, we can see the woman quickly walking toward the car with a phone in one hand and a bag in another. She has a childlike smile on her face which her boyfriend describes with a caption saying, "It's the little speed when she sees the car."
The video continues to show various moments of their drop-off and pick-up routine, focusing on a few details. Each time, the woman lights up upon seeing her boyfriend. In one clip, captioned "long day," she seems exhausted from work, but her smile returns as she opens the car door. Another segment shows her waving through the train station rails after being dropped off, captioned, "When I drop her off, we always wave through the rails." The clip then switches to her holding a grocery bag, captioned, "Shop for date night in."
The man also recorded a few instances when his girlfriend hurt her toe and was limping to the car. Even with a hurting toe, we can see her pace increase as she sees the car. The TikTok clip has captured the hearts of viewers and garnered over 1.5 million views along with 100,000 likes. The comments section is filled with wholesome reactions.
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One user, @big.man.tingz, commented, "Treasure this. My wife used to give me the same big smile and a little slip when she saw me. She is no longer with us but never forgotten. This made me cry." Another user, @dct1977, commented," This is one of the most simple and moving TikToks I’ve ever watched. Having no words makes it so much more authentic and emotional. Your relationship is pure gold and I wish you both all the very best."
You can follow JK (@dr_jk_) on TikTok for more updates on the couple's life.
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.