Is this a natural psychological phenomena - question about distance & relations?

Question

Do people *naturally* decrease their level of involvement in a relation as they move further and further away in distance?

The closer in distance they are to object A, the more involved they seem, but the farther they go (as in distance - for eg. moving from same country to another country altogether) the more distant they become?

The call volume decreases the farther they move.
Would you say this is a *natural* psychological phenomena or could this be an intentional shift and the person is not being sincere?

Your thoughts please? I am conflicted over this.

Personally, if a person is important to me, my involvement will remain the same, regardless of whether they are 5 miles away, or 5000. Ofcourse, I wont be able to "visit" them as often, but, in terms of being in touch, I would remain the same.

I would like to add that money not being an issue here in the situation, with a phone readily available.

to the 2nd person who answered - but how is it resource consuming. I believe in today's world, with everyone being so well-connected through the internet (email, IM, voice calls, text) reaching anyone anywhere is simply not a difficult task anymore.

Answer 1

I'm not sure how to explain something that seems blindingly obvious to me..... but yes.... increased distance in the spacetime continuum from someone will tend to decrease potential contact and thus involvement in all forms due to it being increasingly resource-consuming to maintain interaction across the divide.... basically...

Answer 2

This changes from person to person.. so there isn't a set answer of "everyone is this way"

The only thing I can say for sure is that Change can be stressful for a relationship. So if you are changing from a close relationship to a long distance one... or even visa versa, it can cause problems for the relationship as a whole.