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We started off as high school sweethearts, but it was the last month of high school. We both knew he'd be going away to school in August (and that I would follow him in a year, but we didn't know he was going to come back to our hometown). We played leap frog with our living situations, and have been long distance for essentially our entire relationship, which will be 5 years in May.
We started off as a LDR. I lived in FL and he lived in MA. We meet when we were just 16yr old in New Orleans (pre-Katrina). We were both there for a conference, we started emailing and calling about a month after we got back and then made plans to visit each other.
We went back and forth between states for 5 and half years. Seeing each other over holidays and sometimes for long weekends every three or four months. We got to celebrate our 6 year anniversary together in our first apartment this past September! It's wonderful to finally be close to each other after all that time apart!
Mr. Honey and I started as a LDR, he came home for a week from San Diego.. He served as a Marine there.. we hung out for two days and he asked me out.. I said ok, but then he left.. and we talked on the phone for two and a half years.. he would come home every few months. on major holidays.. I could not wait till he gets out of military.. he did.. only to get a job in Iraq for a year.. WHAT? i was mad.. he did his thing there.. came home for a year..
Now he started CHP Academy ( California Highway Patrol) a week and a half ago. I guess it was ment to be LDR.. We been together for 5 yrs and 4 months, but I always tell him we been together for a year and a half.. lol.. thats putting together all the days that ive seen him.. Our relationship is super strong, and everyone around me told me it wont last.. But it did!! in their face! haha..
We started off as a LDR (a seven hour drive), and after a year I moved to his area for grad school. And man was I terrified, but so glad that I did. 3 years later we both moved back to southern Ca. but he had to move back to original location due to job for another 6 months, but we're finally together again in the same area yay! Now we deal with the traffic, but at least it's not a whole days drive.
My SO and I met online through a website of a hobby we share. He added me as a friend and as he tells it I "ignored" him lol okay... maybe I did alittle! I was busy and not used to having random guys add me as friends lol
I always tease him and say that "he found me" :)
We were introduced to each other thru a friend(06') while I was stationed in Alaska he was in NJ, started dating a yr later. We're still long distance but we've grown soo close.
Started off long distance, and still just starting out (we met at the end of September).
So it's great to hear these success stories of LDR's! Because it is tough sometimes.
We dated for two years in high school, and that was a "normal" relationship the whole time. We broke up after our first semester of college.
Fast forward four and a half years to the first time we hung out after our breakup. I was living in Japan at the time but was in the US to visit my friends in Texas and go to my BFF's wedding in Minnesota. We hit it off, and when I got back to Japan, we started talking online nonstop. After about a month and a half, he asked if I'd be willing to try things again - but when I got back to the States (because neither of us were so stupid as to try to defy the odds and start an LDR!). Within two weeks, we realized that whether we were giving ourselves the title of BF/GF or not, that's what we were. We went ahead and made things official anyway, despite the Pacific Ocean and half the continental US being in the way. We remained like that for nine months until I came home for good.
So we started out as an LDR, yes, but it was a kind of special situation since we already had some history.
well, my husband and i orginially dated when we were in tech school (for the air force), but we broke up b/c we didn't want a LDR at the time. fast foward over a year later, haven't seen him, talked to him, or anything, a mutual friend gives him my number, and we start talking, he flew to come see me, and then we got married two months to the day after he flew to come see me. so, we started dating again as LDR. and for the first five months of being married, we were also LDR...it was a pain, but it takes awhile for joint spouse to kick in!
@DreamingBee: glad to hear you're moving on!
we actually met in China and moved in together about 2 months after meeting (partially for ease since i was living on the 6th floor with no elevator lol!). then when we moved back to the states (at the same time) we lived in the same town for the most part, with summers spent being a couple hours away. then last year he moved 9 hours away for a job. womp womp! so we started out very close and have slowly been pulled apart by circumstances.
FI lived in GA, and I lived in SC for the first 16 months of our relationship. He has since moved to SC to live with me.
My hubby and I started as a LDR right from the start. We met via an online game called EVE Online when we happened to join the same corporation (group). You see, he's from the Netherlands, and I'm on the west coast of the USA! When we started talking, it was purely game stuff, and then it moved to friendship. Neither of us expected or looked for more because of the distance (well and I have a weird or maybe not so weird hang up that I can't and won't get emotionally involved with someone I've never met and don't know whether there is or isn't physical attraction). As it happened, he found out that I was going to the annual EVE event called Fanfest which is held in Iceland each year. We'd both been the year before (but not met) and loved it, so when he heard I was going, he made plans to go! He's the type of person that likes to "know" someone specifically who will be someplace before he's comfortable going, whereas I'm more of the "I wanna go, so if I have to I'll go alone!" kinda person.
When we met in person for the first time, it took us all of 5 seconds to move past that awkward "who IS this person" stage to "OMG You really are the same as that person I have so much fun talking to on the computer!". I knew right away that there was something very very special about this guy and that he was going to play a big part in my future! Our first "date" happened while in Iceland, and from there it became so much more very quickly. We both saw in each other a soulmate, best friend, and lover all combined!
We dated for 1.5 years before getting married and saying goodbye at the airport each time was killer for both of us. We hated the distance, hated saying goodbye, and hated even more the lengthy process and requirements that we'd have to go through to get to that point of a "normal" relationship where we could be together.
Now we are married (have been legally for 7 months) and are both living in the USA. It's so very nice to NOT have to say goodbye at airports anymore!!! In the end the distance was worth it, because I think we know each other better then a lot of couples. It also showed us that we can pull together and support each other through stressful times even right at the beginning of our relationship!
FI and I were what some people would consider LD, but it we weren't across the country. When we first started dating, we lived 2 hours apart. We dated for 3 months before we ever really got to spend any time together. I started spending one weekend a month with him, and he would come spend the alternating weekend with me. FI moved to his parent's hometown in February (which is an hour away) because of several family situations, and we actually spend less time together now than we did when he lived the extra hour away. We really only spend 24 hours together a week, which is really frustrating when you're planning a wedding. He's working full time and going to school, but he'll graduate (finally) inDecember 2011. He should have been done this December, but he changed schools and majors, so... we wait. We've been trying to figure out how we're going to handle everything, since after he graduates he'll be working here where I live, and his parents are VERY against us living together before marriage, even if it means saving money, which I resent since he's been living on his own and paying his own way for 3 years, not to mention the fact he's an adult... But, that's just the evidence of our different upbringings... Hopefully we won't be "LD" up until right before the wedding or we'll never pull it off.
Ours became one after about 18 months of dating. He was unemployed for a year then was offered a position in Cali (I'm in GA) in the film industry which would allow him to go after his dream job. He's been gone over 6 months and its been tough, no doubt, but we are trying to push through and make it work.
My boyfriend and I's relationship started as an LDR. He lived in Ontario and I lived 600km away in Montreal. To be fair, it was not too bad since I went up to visit him every 2-3 weeks (and sometimes he would come and visit for a weekend inbetween) and I would stay with him for weeks at a time.
I just recently moved in with him though! We're been together almost 3 years! Yay!
We were in the same place for a little over a year and now we are doing the long distance thing...*sigh*
We met in high school and then went to different colleges so it developed into long distance but we ended up breaking up. When we got back together about a year and a half ago it started out long distance but will soon be over in 6 weeks! woot! So I'm going to say we're a mix. :)
Our LDR is that my SO is gone M-F for work, so we have always spent weekends together. He has had this job since we began dating.
But since about day 6 that we started dating, we have talked on the phone for about an hour every single night that he is gone. Yes, his being gone all week every week (and a few weekends occasionally) is extremely hard on me and our dogs and our relationship. But thank goodness we talk every night, because that has saved us.
hit it right off when we met in school. four months later i was being transfered to japan and he was going to virginia...
Our relationship started as an LDR. We met on an online dating site and from the beginning new we were apart and new from the beginning it would continue to be a LDR. It sure has had its ups and downs but without a doubt it has been worth it. I'm so excited because he comes to visit me on Friday :)
We met when we were kids and we lived close to eachother in Mass. My family moved to Fl, and we lost contact for 18 years. 3 years ago, he found me on the computer and we hit it off. We decided to meet in the middle, NC, and have been here ever since :)
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