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I am 2 hours behind Mr. RB and it works out great! We talk before he goes to work in the morning (7am his time, 5am my time) and then I get ready to go to the gym after we talk! He's my wakeup call :)
Its harder for him at night to talk b/c since he hit mid-thirties he gets sleeeeeepy! lol so our evening talks are short & happen around 8-9pm his time!
When we were long distance, I was in EST and he was in MST, so 2 hours difference! It really made it hard because calls and everything were always so much later for me than they were for him.
Nooooo! He's 9 hours ahead of me. boo hoo. It's very hard to find time to talk to each other - we often end up chatting on msn messenger, rather than using our webcam because when I get up and he has time to talk, I am getting ready for work, or when I come home from work and have time to talk, he is sleeping. We usually try to have a "coffee date" on saturday mornings!
We're 13 hours apart :( (12 hours when day light savings is [or isn't? I can never remember] in effect).
So ... we only get to talk on the weekends, because by the time he gets home from work, I'm at school, and by the time I get home from school, he's in bed. Very occassionally we get to gchat during his 8-9am prep hour at school, but only if his grading load is low :)
Alas, no. He's 15 hours ahead. I like to ask him how the flying cars and rocketpacks are working out there in the future!
Right now it's actually not too bad because he gets home about 1:30 am my time, so we chat easily for a couple of hours. When we're both in daylight savings, it's awful; he's not home until around 4 am my time. That gets rough.
9, 12, 15 hours apart... wow girls! You make my relationship look like a walk in the park.
Do any of you use phone cards or do you just have super awesome phone plans?
We're together ... just 3 hours away from the rest of our family.
When we were in our LDR we lived 7 hours apart though (same time zone).
I'm always thinking in terms of what time it is 5 hours from now. :) The FI and I talk every weeknight as soon as I get home, so that I can catch him before bed. (5:30 for me, 10:30 for him). Then I write him an e-mail before I go to bed, and he writes one back before he goes to work. Its a pretty good routine since we both have to work during the day, we can't chat any other time, except on weekends, when we get to chat TWICE in one day. What a luxury.
He's 8 hours ahead. Phone calls indeed - with our respective work schedules, talking on the phone is an extreme rarity (when he gets home from work, it's usually time for me to leave for work, and when I get home, he's usually already been asleep for a couple hours). Thank the Internet Gods for email!
@RB - we use skype, pretty much exclusively. Once in a great while I use skype to call his cell (like when he forgets to wake up for our skype dates) but mostly it's freeeeeee computer to computer. :)
Right now we are only one hour different, but starting in Jan, we are going to be three hours different... I am going to get a family cell phone plan with him though so we can talk anytime. :)
When we were apart, we were 13 hours apart (14 during daylight savings). I'm still that time difference from my family. 13 is strangely better than 14 in terms of coordinating schedules. However, because FI and I have two different mother tongues, we rarely rarely speak on the phone. If we don't speak in person we tend to have major communication problems!!!! That made our LDR even harder!!!!!!
In Korea there is this phenomenon called 'wild goose fathers.' It means when a mother and child(ren) go abroad so the child(ren) can study English/acquire foreign citizenship to avoid military service or gain entry into foreign schools. The father stays behind in Korea by himself to work. This is a huge huge trend and families will spend YEARS doing this. A major decision we made early on was to never ever split our family like this. We may have to live in different countries throughout our lives, but we'll go together. I couldn't imagine being LD with a family for years....
we have a 3 hour difference as well. it usually works out as he tends to stay up late anyway so it's still a reasonable time for me. though i'm really looking forward to not having to do math before giving him a call!
No time difference now but when I was traveling heavily for work and he was out to sea, we never could keep track of what time it was for the other person!
@Bamm - woah, that's crazy! Here in China often one spouse will go abroad for education for a year and then come back, but the kids are usually left here, and grandpa and grandma move in to help take care of them (or the kids live at school; boarding schools are super common here).
Yes, within the same time zone. But.. my internal clock is different than his. I can't fall asleep before midnight, whereas he would love to be asleep by 10 during the week. I don't get home most nights until 9 and not totally settled until 10 and then I call him and he is soooo very tired. So, it is like we're on two different time zones. LOL!!
Just an hour difference here. Compared to others I can't complain, but I sure miss going through the motions together (e.g. chatting before both of our bedtimes instead of just one).
We are in the same time zone, but barely. He lives right on the dividing line.
We are in different time zones now but will finally be together after the wedding. Through the last 5 yrs he has lived in every time zone in the USA and I've been on the west coast the whole time. So we've had the weirdest calling schedules...we just make it work, even when it sucks :)
he is 3 hours behind me. before he was laid off it was sorta perfect because when he was getting off work (2nd shifter) i was in college, so i had erratic sleep hours. so usually he would call and that was my clue that it was bed time. so i would spend that time while he is driving home from work to catch up on each others day and then we would get our sleep time in once he got home since we would both somehow fall asleep together then.
now that he has been laid off it is a bit harder since he is in school and i work different hours so we dont get to spend any phone time like we use to. we are lucky to catch each other once a week on my day off while he is going to and from school even though it isnt a long commute for him.
We only have one hour difference but I was so surprised to see how hard it makes things! He has to go to bed early than I do because of work, so it feels like when I finally have time to talk in the evenings, he's sleeping!
we were two hours apart and it was awful for communicating! We both wanted to talk right before bed, but my right before bed when his prime study time in grad school, and his right before bed was long after I was sleeping, and it was frustrating!
When I was on my way home from work, he was still in his last class for the day...When I was on my way to work he was still sleeping, etc.
I can't imagine how difficult 5, 6, 7, 8 hours time differences are! So stressful
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When we were long distance, Bee and I lived three hours apart... which actually turned out great! She could call me when commuting home at 7 pm PST... which was a great time for me (10 pm EST).
Now that we live together in the same time zone, our schedules are probably less synced up than they once were. :-)
How about you: are you in the same timezone as your SO? How does the timezone affect your phone calls and other communication?