Long distance relationships

casualmadness · #1 01-25-2008, 12:44 PM

Anyone in one currently? I'm kind of in one. I live in DC and my girlfriend lives in NYC. So that's like four hours and some change. We still manage to see one another about two to three days per week. So it's working pretty well. The greatest distance I ever tried was a girlfriend in Utah and I was moving around quite a bit due to being in the military. I started in Oklahoma then on to Georgia. Then finally settled in Washington state. So that put me around 12 hours from her. But then I got deployed for a year. While I was gone she got married.

Meh...it happens.
Anyone else doing the long distance thing? Hows it working out?

meev992 · #2 01-25-2008, 01:01 PM

I've found myself in so many long distance relationships, it just gets strange when I'm not in one...to have easy access to said significant other.

I don't know how I do it. I just try to keep pictures by my night stand, read old text messages, play my bass when I think of her, and just try to remember that I won't have a girl quite like her, ever.

With that said, my lady better put-out when I come over, because I have needs

Matt_W · #3 01-25-2008, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by meev992

I've found myself in so many long distance relationships, it just gets strange when I'm not in one...to have easy access to said significant other.

I don't know how I do it. I just try to keep pictures by my night stand, read old text messages, play my bass when I think of her, and just try to remember that I won't have a girl quite like her, ever.

With that said, my lady better put-out when I come over, because I have needs

I should think so to.

lbpark · #4 01-25-2008, 01:12 PM

I tried it last summer. We were together about 2 months, then she took a job in NC and I'm in Alabama. The relationship lasted about a month longer then she broke it off, which I was ready for anyway. To those who make it work, hats off.

meev992 · #5 01-25-2008, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt_W

I should think so to.

She better dedicate an entire day specifically for Mattress-Tag

Or I'll be very unhappy

i_got_a_mohawk · #6 01-25-2008, 01:17 PM

Its never worked for me

meev992 · #7 01-25-2008, 01:22 PM

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Its never worked for me

lol was she from England?

Aaiieeee · #8 01-25-2008, 01:30 PM

Im in one, well its about 3 hours train journey appart but it works out fine. We talk all the time and totally dig each other. Ive never met anyone like her before and its the same for her about me and its only going to be long distance while shes at uni (If its going to be a perminantly long distance I dont see the point but we know we will be closer in about a year). I went to see her yesterday, got up at 7am, at hers by 11am. Left hers at 9:30pm and back home at nearing 2am. Thats loads of time just to hang out and its a nice full day activity!

It really depends what you want out of a relationship. It does make the time more special when you meet up I find and I too have needs but often its more fun just to hang out and enjoy each others company. I really can see myself marrying Rach so will be sticking it out till the end!

(all but one of my relationships have been long distance oddly enough, I quite like it this way cos you have to make time for each other instead of just meeting up in the middle of a busy life schedule or something)

MakiSupaStar · #9 01-25-2008, 01:48 PM

No. It's a waste of time. Doesn't mean I don't have chicks that I hook up with when I'm in town though. Those are easily maintained with a few text messages of her pu... uh, kitty.

i_got_a_mohawk · #10 01-25-2008, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by meev992

lol was she from England?

Nah, Edinburgh, granted it is about an hour and a half drive from where i live, but i dont drive, but she never had her car there (she was from a town near me, but went to uni in edinbugh).

And taking buses it took ~3 hours each way, had some awesome times, but, not enough

PaleMelanesian · #11 01-25-2008, 01:58 PM

We were together for 1 year.
Then long-distance for 2 years.
Then together again.

We've been married 5 1/2 years now.

Long distance relationships suck, but it can work out, if you both are willing to make it work.

Deluge Of Sound · #12 01-25-2008, 02:07 PM

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We've been married 5 1/2 years now. It sucks, but it can work out, if you both are willing to make it work.

Not to be an obnoxious grammar nerd, but you just said that being married sucks.

MakiSupaStar · #13 01-25-2008, 02:08 PM

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Not to be an obnoxious grammar nerd, but you just said that being married sucks.

It does.

PaleMelanesian · #14 01-25-2008, 02:10 PM

Hahahaha! You got me.

NOT what I meant, though. The long-distance part sucks.

casualmadness · #15 01-25-2008, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

It does.

+1

Baryonyx · #16 01-25-2008, 03:14 PM

I'm in one (for about 6 months of the year until my girlfriend finishes uni next year). Since she goes to Uni in a faraway place, it's like a 3 hour and 10 minute train journey to get to her. So about once a month I go over and stay for a weekend. It's not as rough as I thought it would be, she is home most of the year anyway it seems!

Bob Clayton · #17 01-25-2008, 06:52 PM

my current girlfriend is 6 hours away... and it's working out amazing..

i see her once a month... but it makes it so much more worth it when i see her.

Spoiled Grape · #18 01-25-2008, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

No. It's a waste of time. Doesn't mean I don't have chicks that I hook up with when I'm in town though. Those are easily maintained with a few text messages of her pu... uh, kitty.

Here here.

Valerus · #19 01-25-2008, 07:04 PM

I tried one but the reason it didn't work out wasn't because of the distance.

coolrunner989 · #20 01-25-2008, 10:19 PM

I'm in a long-distance relationship right now - I'm in minnesota and she's in Atlanta, about a 1000 mile difference, and neither of us is made of money for plane tickets. It's workd out for a while now (last semester) and I think we can keep it up. Like it was mentioned above - the time with her is just so much sweeter now