A year of not seeing someone IS hard, I don't think anyone's under the impression that it's easy, and any long-term relationship, marriage, what have you, takes alot of work. Anyone who believes it's easy is fooling themselves...that's why the divorce rate is what it is in this country...people are to damn lazy to work at their marriages, divorce becomes the easy way. And as far as our relationship being illegal, yeah, I guess it was, but now at 23 and 27, doesn't really matter now.