Long Distance Relationships

lazyreader · June 2014

The remarry poll had me wondering...

How many of us have been in a long distance relationship? What was your experience? Got any stories to share (funny or sad)

I've been with my hubs for 11 years now and of that 6 years have been apart... and from that 6 years 4 years total was spent in Iraq. Our longest stretch was 14 months apart. His longest deployment was 9.5 months...

Crazy story: When I first moved out to live near his base (8th & I, wash DC) I spent the night in his car... in southeast DC. YIKES. probably not smart

Funny story: On his first deployment I mailed him coffee and snacks. my mom mailed him dirty magazines... lol

amdecker1016 · June 2014

Yes. When me and tim officially got together he was leaving on deployment to Iraq. 15 months there and like six months at fort campbell until he moved by me.

cdnmomma · June 2014

Mh used to travel for work, so not the same as long distance per say, but we always had a hot reunion when he came home. I kinda miss that.

amandoza23 · June 2014

The first 8 months of us dating I was in California and he was in Colorado. Then I moved to be with him and 2 years later he joined the military. We were apart again all of 2012.

Missfunball · June 2014

Another military wife. My hu vs is on submarines and when they are gone we get at best emails....just text. Sometimes no communications at all. I think it helps that it's how we met , I had to work hard since I'm a....well I like to practice for babies a lot

We made a deal to at least write each other every 3 days even if it's to say nothing. The upside is when he comes home we get to have all the new relationship cuteness and giddiness. It's like a relationship reset. So some downsides but an amazing silver lining.

We've also spent half or relationship apart but 6 months has been my longest away and 5 months my longest with him.

jbelle · June 2014

For 5 years of the 6 years we dated, but only 1-3 hours apart. We saw one another on the weekends. Dealing with a deployment, different time zone, etc., for months is a whole other ball of wax!

jazzyexpo · June 2014

We did. We were young though, 18/19. We met on MySpace of all places. He lived in Oregon and I was in Florida. Neither of us had any money, so we couldn't visit each other often. He finally came to visit 6 months after we started our long distance relationship. It was our first time meeting in person, we webcamed all the time, and he stayed two weeks with my grandparents. Needless to say, my dad did not like the situation and pretty much told him to end it when he left.

Well that didn't happen, obviously. It took a year and he came to visit again. This was march 2007 and he officially moved here in August 2007. This happened without me ever meeting his family.

My mom asked me to wait a year to get married or think of it. That way we had time to be together in person and date in person. Six months later he proposed and six months after we were married. The first time I met his family was when they came down for the wedding.

Oh and my dad has apologized many times for how he treated him. In some crazy way it worked out and we hate having to be long distance for anything now, like business trips and such. We were long distance for 2 years and together 9 years now, married 6.

rockopera · June 2014

We met on an internship in Florida. We went home to our separate states for the following semester. He came to my state twice and I went to his twice in that 4 months. We decided we couldn't stay apart, and I was closer to being done with school so he came to me. We got engaged before he moved (so yeah, only really officially dating for 5 months before getting engaged). We got married a year later and moved back to his state so he could finish school. Then we moved back to FL where it all began.

theluckiest9 · June 2014

We met in college. My H is Australian and there was a time he took a semester off and I didn't see him for 9 months. Summers were spent apart. We lived in Australia after we got married and when we decided to come back to the US we spent 5 months apart until his visa was approved. The last stretch we spent apart was my last semester of grad school. He went back to Australia to work bc jobs were scarce where we were and he could make a lot more money there. That was a 10 month stretch (I visited at Christmas for a couple weeks about half way through).

PerkyErky · June 2014

DH and I met online. He lived in Colorado and I lived in Oregon. We were married 11 months later and 3 months after that he relocated back to Oregon (he is from Oregon originally). We talked everyday for hours. I think being long distance made us talk more and get to know each other better. Because we were apart the physical stuff didn't play as big of a role in our attraction.

KariB509 · June 2014

I've been with my H for almost 10 years. About 4 years of it was spent apart. Not a super long distance but apart. For 3 years he was in college two hours away. We'd see each other about every other weekend or so. Then I transferred to the college where he went and moved there. In 2008 he graduated and in May 2009 found a job 3 hours away. By that point, we were engaged and about to get married in July. It was too late to change the date. So we got married knowing that a month after our wedding I'd have to go back to continue college. He lived with his mom and commuted an hour and I lived two hours away. We saw each other every weekend but it sucked. A lot.

AshleyO925 · June 2014

MH and I started long distance (military), but he did not have to go on deployment, we just lived in different states.

Crazy story: I was flying down for our wedding weekend last memorial day and we needed to go to the courthouse Friday morning to file paperwork. I got stuck in DC because of weather and they had no flights to NC all weekend long. It was Thursday night, so what does my then fiance do? Gets in a car and drives 5 hours to get me in the middle of the night (running on no sleep) and turned right around to drive the 5 hours back so we could make it to the courthouse in time. Talk about knowing you found the right person!

Edit:posted too soon

Khedges07 · June 2014

DH & I been together 5years now. We spent the first 3&a bit years apart, he worked in Belguim & I was living on south coast of uk. He came home for 10days every month.
Was hard but has made us stronger.
Once we were married & hubby got offered his current job in UAE we decided it was time to be together as a family & give up living apart!
We love it & haven't looked back.
Being apart has def made us stronger & appreciate each other more.

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