Taylor Swift still supporting her man despite being over 7000KM away

As someone who recently engaged in a yearlong long-distance relationship that made me more familiar with Spirit flight schedules in the continental US than I ever hoped to be, I feel I am uniquely qualified to say this: Love is hard sometimes! Not the love itself, necessarily, but the logistics that go into two adults spending their

lives together can be genuinely complicated, whether you’re hopping cut-rate flights from Austin to see your partner in LA (like I was, until recently) or climbing aboard your private jet and flying all night from Tokyo to Las Vegas to see your boyfriend win the Super Bowl. (Yes, I am talking about Taylor Swift.)Obviously, there isn’t a ton of similarities between me and Swift (although I have also been to Pennsylvania and gone through breakups!), but after my year-plus of long-distance dating that finally resulted in me moving cross-country to be with my partner, I have a new level of respect for the work it must take for Swift to be physically in the same room as Kelce at any time—let alone for the Super Bowl. It is not easy to figure out true-love logistics (or, to borrow a phrase from Everything Everywhere All at Once, the “laundry and taxes” of it all), even when you’re a Normal.

So, though I’ve been a certified cynic since I was about nine, I can’t help being glad that Swift and Kelce had their big postgame make-out moment…even though the heterosexuality of it all still makes me want to hide my face in my hands a little bit