Your Guide to Long Distance Relationships

I'm going on 4 yrs in an LDR - but I didn't think of it as an LDR at first since we are only 75 miles apart. 75 miles that can take 3hrs to travel with horrible DC metropolitan area traffic. I wish I had done more thinking before I got involved. Today I searched for some information to help me deal with the loneliness. It's getting old. This web site is validating my frustrations and feelings. The recommendations are ones that I have come up with myself - so I feel good about my efforts. But it would have been helpful if we had read this together 3 yrs ago so I wouldn't have to figure this out on my own. Hope I find some relief here to help me hang in there.

Loneliness is really hard for me. Me and my boyfriend have been going out for a little over a month now and are 2,500 miles apart. Its hard because my family members keep telling me that its just a summer love and that it wont last. I have a very very strong feeling that our relationship will last. Despite their unhelpful negative attitudes toward my long distance (and my first) relationship, I have very strong hopes and believe that him and I can make this work. This website makes me see things in a whole different light and gives me the advice I would have never gotten anywhere else. I still worry that we will get into fights or something will happen but I believe that we will be able to talk it out. Even though we are still in high school, I've seen too much not to know what could happen. I see my friends with their significant others and I think to myself about how they don't appreciate the time they have with each other. As each day goes by, I think of it as another day closer to seeing him. I've held conversations with him that I could never hold with anybody else. I miss him very very much and I know that our relationship will last because we communicate very well, but most importantly we love each other and I have never been so sure about my feelings for anybody in my life even though its still early in our LDR. He is the other half to my heart and I love him immensely.

I'm new into an LDR (two months) and we're 3000 miles apart. So far so good, as the communication is excellent. The only challenge so far has been trying to determine her mood without having the visual cues to do so. Before happening upon this website I didn't know there was a community of people in LDRs, so the articles and comments here are very helpful.

Mine is tough because we not only have the physical separation, sometimes its weeks before we can talk on the phone since he\'s deployed at Sea. He\'s not a big emailer so ours is especially challenging and it gets really lonely for me. Good thing ours has an expiration date with him coming home in a year. That and knowing he's worth it is what keeps me strong.

Mine is tough because we not only have the physical separation, sometimes its weeks before we can talk on the phone since he\\\'s deployed at Sea. He\\\'s not a big emailer so ours is especially challenging and it gets really lonely for me. Good thing ours has an expiration date with him coming home in a year. That and knowing he\'s worth it is what keeps me strong.