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I totally know how you feel! A few months after getting engaged I went overseas on exchange for 5 weeks and had to leave my poor fella behind (plus, he was living with my parents!). We had only spent 2 or 3 days apart before and that was right at the very start of our relationship so it was a massive deal for us! It was really hard, like, really REALLY hard, but just think it'll make the airport reunion so much better! Also, I found that going to sleep was the hard part so my sister made me a pillow case with a cheesy photo of my fella on it (which I'm sure shocked a few unsuspecting hotel staff!) which helped a bit!
We're lucky in that we've got so much technology (mobile phones, internet, skype etc) that we can keep in touch easily - just think of how all of those poor girls dealt with distance before all of the mod cons! Good luck and enjoy your airport reunion!!!
Mr Trail Mix is going to be in Miami (I'll be in upstste NY) from Dec 21-Jan 5! I'm soooo bummed we won't get to celebrate NYE together since it's the only New Years we'll have as an engaged couple...Unfortunately, his family circumstances made this trip a necessity, the longer the better, so I couldn't really argue it, but I am sad about it.... :(
Yes : ( DH is a surgery resident and has to work Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Years day. I'm going to go back and forth to my family's house and try to spend time with him when he's not working...
wow... sorry I'm not alone in this! Sucks to be away from the boy for the holidays. @miss sparklespanial--- that is cute about your sister and the pillow. neither fi nor i are phone people but i made him promise to call or email me every day if he can so that will hopefully make it a little better for me.
Yes. :( I'll be in VA and he'll be in MA with his mom, since she's having a lot of bad times right now. I understand, but next Christmas he'll be in Afghanistan (and the one after, I may be there!), so it makes me sad that we're not spending it together when we have the chance...
Yes and no... We will both be spending Christmas Eve and Day with our families, however he is flying in late Christmas night to spend time with me and my family.
We were gonna spend it together, but last week I decided to check if cheap flights were available to visit my fam in Florida..and they were! I'm going for a LONG time...leaving this Sat and coming back Jan 7. That is the only way I could do it, since the flights were cheapers the farther out from the holidays you booked them.
I am SUPER sad to leave my fiance by himself for so long, but his family is near and they would want him to be with them for the holidays...and I really want to be with my family this holiday since my bro will be down there too...so we will literally all be together.
Sad face, but happy face.
I'm glad we're not the only couple! I think people think we're weird that we're spending the holidays apart! But we both come from big, traditional families so we figured we'd do our own this thing year and enjoy the time with our families since we have the rest of our lives to figure out where to go for the holidays! We do get to be together for New Year's Eve though so that will be nice!
Yep! I just wrote a post about this too :)
We'll be apart for the holidays (and can't even skype, since he'll be at his parents' and they still have dial up... yikes!), but are choosing to have "Christmas Morning" on January 2 - I get in the night of the 1st. The tentative plan involves making breakfast together, opening gifts, cuddling and watching at least one Christmas movie (I'm voting Elf).
@daydreamwanderer: Elf is great...you can never get tired of that movie!
Yes, we’ll be apart for the holidays. FH’s family all lives in CA, and he usually goes out to see them for over 3 weeks over Christmas and New Years. In almost 4 years together, we’ve never spent a Christmas or New Years together :( The original plan was for me to go out right after Christmas, but with paying for the wedding, and some large projects going on at work, I decided not to go. At least this year, he is only going from December 23-30, so we actually get to spend New Years together!
We're going to be apart too :( Daydreamwanderer, that is super cute what you and your FI are doing! We will be reunited Jan. 1 as well but the next day is our engagement party and we will be around a bunch of family so we won't have any time to ourselves really. But on Jan. 4 we are taking off for where he lives and spending A WHOLE WEEK together! We haven't been together that long since June when we went long distance!
@daydreamwanderer/daniellemybelle- i don't know how you girls do it! I've been long distance before but I couldn't do it anymore. I've gotten as spoiled as a fat house cat and I don't want my FI to go anywhere! lol
We are also spending the holidays separate. I am flying home to the midwest next Tuesday and will be gone for six nights. He will be staying here because most of his family is here. I don't really mind that much though, I rarely get to go home and sometimes I prefer to spend time with my friends and family by myself because I don't get to see them much.
I am flyingto Dallas on Tuesday to be with my family but FI is staying here because he has to work. Over the course of our relationship I think we've only had one holiday together. I was really hoping he would get to come with me this year and I'm very disappointed that it didn't work out... But I know when I come back he will be so excited to see me! :)
I'm the yes and no type as well. He's on call Christmas Eve and works Christmas, so I really don't know how much or when I will see him. Which also means we've made no plans, because whenever we make them, it always ends up he works longer hours. He told me I could go home to my parents for Christmas but with the sister drama that's being going on since we've gotten engaged, I opted to have some drama free holiday time.
Mr. M and I have never spent Christmas together. We both like to be with our families. It's not a big deal because it's just a holiday, we see eachother every day. When we get married it'll be different and we'll have to take turns but neither of us are happy about it.
This is actually our first Christmas together, even though we were engaged last year and were dating the 3 years before that. It just worked out better for us to split up because of the distance between our families. I'm kinda looking forward to being with him this year, but disappointed that I have to miss out on my family Christmas Eve to do it.
My husband and I haven't gone anywhere alone seperate lately except when he went back home for work a couple months ago. Really wish I could have gone because I miss his mommy!
This makes me feel better. I'll be flying to NJ on Tuesday, and he's headed to Ohio with our puppy to visit his brother on Christmas Eve. I'll be back a few days after Christmas, but we moved in together three months ago and haven't been apart since (we live in NC, the rest of our family and friends are up north). It'll be sad, but the reunion will make it worth it :) Hang in there, bees! We can do it, and it'll be nice to see the fam!
I'm spending Christmas away from my fiance--we've been together for 6 years now and last year was the first year I didn't go to my mom's for Christmas (I have a very small family and my mom's divorced, so it's sad for all when we are apart). My fiance didn't want to come because he didn't want to spend the vacation days and he doesn't really love hanging at my mom's (very sburban). I don't mind that much personally because I'll see friends i grew up with, but for me the worst part is the hemming and hawing before we finalize holiday plans. I wish that would go more easily and smoothly but it never does...
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Just dropped FI off at the airport, and I won't see him again until December 29!! He is headed to New York to see his family. He booked this trip this summer before we were engaged, and he only goes home about once every two years or so (last time he was home was Christmas 2007) so that is why the trip is so long. I really didn't expect it to bother me at all. I go home alone sometimes or he goes on weekend trips and it never is a big deal to be apart for a few days... but that is always 1-3 nights apart-- this is almost 2 weeks! In the last week or so it has really set in that we're going to be apart for so long and I'm super sad. We have said though--- after this we come as a pair. No more holidays apart.