Relationships that start out Long Distance

It worked out for a long time. The thing is that eventually, someone will have to move.

I'll give you an example of one that did NOT work out haha My bf and I were together for 2 years... We're just very young and it wasn't good timing/blend of personalities... But I really loved him and I was willing to give it all up for him, he just wasn't willing to do the same... But I do know some people go through this and it does work out in the end!

My husband and I didn't meet on the internet but we started our relationship 300 miles away and continued in a long distance relationship for 4 years. Needless to say, although it is tough it worked out.


My best friend met her future husband on myspace 5 years ago. (Yikes, her parents don't know this still to this day )They continued are now engaged and are going to be married next spring.

Just like any relationship, it takes a lot of effort, patience, trust and understanding.

Good luck!

Yep! I "met" DH online through a friend of a friend.... we chatted on Yahoo IM (as a group and alone) for months.... then slowly progressed to phone calls. I met him in person about 9 months after we first started IMing.

After that we dated long distance for about 8 months before I moved 1500 miles to be with him (I also had a job offer in the new City at that point).

So in total... I moved halfway across the country to be with him LESS than 2 years after we first started "chatting".

Incredibly scary? YEP! But somehow I knew the decision was the right one for me at the time. I've never regretted it once.

Ok so I didn't meet mine online. But I have had him across the world for a year (gone 6 months home a month and gone six months) twice in the last 4 years. The biggest thing is communication. Without it no relationship has a chance. And then once that huge move/sacfifice is done, allowing each other to get used to the normal routines. Nothing like being together 12 years and having to adjust to living together again. It can be difficult because you are now joining two seperate lives and those idiosyncranise may or may not mesh. :flowerforyou:

I met my bf on myspace in like...2004.
We talked on and off, then alllll the time, then I was getting in trouble in computer classes for talking to him on one of very few blocked sites with a chat function (I still aced all the homework in that class!), then we finally met.
It didnt take long before we were dating.

He only lived about an hour drive from me, and when I was 17 he was 22...but he still picked me up from school almost every Friday.
The girls were SO jealous it was hilarious to me.

We're on our 3rd time dating and I'm 99% that we're in it for the long haul now.

I met my husband though an online dating service. He was in NYC and I was in Massachusetts. Fortunately the distance between us was only 250 miles. We chatted online for about 2 weeks before we decided to meet. Once we met we both pretty much knew it was going to work out. I moved down here a few weeks later and within two months we were married. Fast I know, but by the time you're in your late 30s you pretty much know exactly what you're looking for... and when it's right, you know it. We've been married for two years.

My guy lives in Florida and I live on Vancouver Island........ So about 3000 miles apart. It sucks we can't see each other as much as we want to, but at the same time we're both happy/spontaneous so we'll just have to see how it works out in the end
Good luck xo

I met my geeky soul mate online in 2003. We chatted via email, several times a day, for a month or so, and then he asked me out to dinner. Neither of us knew what each other looked like but it didn't matter because as far as we were both concerned, we were just two chums going out for a meal. We emailed each other our photos a few hours before we were due to meet, and our reactions were the same....phwoarrr! :laugh:

He drove to the other side of the county to take me out, and we've been together ever since! This year we celebrated our 8th anniversary!

We *both* ended up moving to be with each other; at first, renting separate houses in neighbouring towns for a couple of years (we didn't want to rush into anything hasty!), then finally, buying a house together in 2006. Blissfully happy doesn't come close!

It wasn't online, but it was long distance! I was in NC, and my husband-to-be was in FL. We worked together and had only ever talked on the phone. Once we met face-to-face, we knew we should be together. We were fortunate in that his company in FL was able to find a position for him here in NC, so he just transferred from one location to another. Been together going on 12 years now.

I met my DH in the pre-internet days & boy that fact makes me feel old!:laugh:
We kept up a long distance relationship for a few years until we married. It'll be 21 years at the end of this month.:noway:
It takes work to make a long distance relationship going, but when it works it's totally worth while.

My sister met a man online who lived in Peru, she lived here in the US. Turns out he was the nephew of the Peruvian President, Alan Garcia. They are now happily married with a family living in South America. I also lived apart from my husband for the first year of our marriage... long distance relationships can work.

we started out long distance, and stayed long distance until just a few weeks before the wedding! maybe made the adjustment of living together harder to go from missing each other to being all up in eachothers grills everyday, and I do sometimes wish we could have stayed in my town instead of his, now that I am here, but it was the only way it could have worked in our situation. The distance shook up our relationship a few times, it got rocky, but having each other in our lives, even long distance, was better than not having each other, thats how you know it will work out, when you care enough to make it work even if its not the ideal situation.

Yep. Met my husband on match.com. We lived 250 miles apart. Dated for 8 months going back and forth as much as possible. Then I moved to his town, in together. The first six months living together was tough. I was totally not sure we were going to make it. It had nothing to do with finding out things hidden, etc. that do happen to people who've met online, rather just finding how to live together. I think it would have happened even if we lived in the same town. Anyways, we will be married for 6 years in September and have a daughter who will turn five in September also.

Wow. Time moves so fast. I can't believe we will be married six years this year...that means we've been together 8. Wow.

I've been in my current relationship for the last 4.5 years. 2.5 years ago, my fiancee moved here to be with me. Now we have a lovely home together and will be getting married in the next year or two!