long distance relationships

ihsb · 21-04-2012 09:31PM

Unless the vibrator is attached to a hot naked man it just won't do.

opinion guy · 21-04-2012 09:37PM

ChaseThisLight wrote: »

Just because I used past tense doesn't mean they didn't work.

The first ended mutually; and he'd gone away to school and after a year he decided to stay where he was, that he was never moving back, and I wasn't ready to move at the time, and we decided we were both too young to commit (we were both 18). And he really did never move back.

18 ? Thsats not an LDR its an episode of Dawson's Creek :rolleyes:

The second was a few years later, we'd been dating a year, he moved 80 miles away, we traveled to see each other, talked on the phone often, emailed, after a year he moved home, we got married, now we're divorced - also a mutually agreed ending.

As far as creating fantasies about the person you're in a LDR with so you don't fight, etc...if you can't be real with the person you're in a relationship with, if you can't truly be yourself and have them accept you for you and vice versa, then they aren't the person you should be with.

By the way, I consider them to have worked, because they worked while we were in the long distant relationship, and when they did end it was mutual and no one was hurt, and it wasn't the just the distance involved in the end, but the decisions we had to make concerning our futures.

Wait wait wait - you are counting your LDR that ended in divorce as a win ???

Zaph wrote: »

I must tell that to my fiancée when she returns from her hen tomorrow. :rolleyes:

Yeah - you tell her how lucky you both are to have made it work. The vast majority don't.

opinion guy · 21-04-2012 09:39PM

Fiona wrote: »

Teddy bear and vibrator?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrlFLZFdnQ

Fiona · 21-04-2012 09:42PM

ihsb wrote: »

Unless the vibrator is attached to a hot naked man it just won't do.

Yeah but sometimes you just gotta make do with the next best thing!

ihsb · 21-04-2012 09:44PM

Fiona wrote: »

Yeah but sometimes you just gotta make do with the next best thing!

Or be with someone that lives near you?

ChaseThisLight · 21-04-2012 09:47PM

opinion guy wrote: »

18 ? Thsats not an LDR its an episode of Dawson's Creek :rolleyes:

I'll give you that, yes...but it still counts.

Wait wait wait - you are counting your LDR that ended in divorce as a win ???

Yes, because the divorce happened 10 years after the fact, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the LDR. When we were in the LDR, it worked for us, which is the point, not that fact that the relationship ended years later.

opinion guy · 21-04-2012 09:58PM

ChaseThisLight wrote: »

I'll give you that, yes...but it still counts.

Yes, because the divorce happened 10 years after the fact, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the LDR. When we were in the LDR, it worked for us, which is the point, not that fact that the relationship ended years later.

Fair enough. Never the less the point stands. The vast majority of LDR's don't work and people end up with alot of wasted time and broken hearts. I've seen it soooooooooo many times.

ChaseThisLight · 21-04-2012 10:13PM

opinion guy wrote: »

Fair enough. Never the less the point stands. The vast majority of LDR's don't work and people end up with alot of wasted time and broken hearts. I've seen it soooooooooo many times.

Yes, some work, some don't.

I believe it all depends on the people, and if they want it to work. As I said before, if the person means something to you, if you love them, if you don't give up when it's tough (because it is definitely not the easiest thing in the world), it can work. If you don't have that with the person, then of course it won't work; or there could be any number of reasons why...circumstances, timing, etc...who knows what else.

youreadthis · 21-04-2012 10:34PM

opinion guy wrote: »

Fair enough. Never the less the point stands. The vast majority of LDR's don't work and people end up with alot of wasted time and broken hearts. I've seen it soooooooooo many times.

tbh as far as I know most people's short distance relationships don't work either, hence most people have multiple partners before they settle down.

Wompa1 · 21-04-2012 10:41PM

I'm 2 months into an LDR. It hasn't been easy. It's very difficult to sound out arguments when you are 10,000 miles apart. There's an 8 hour time difference and she says being in the town we both lived in is very difficult because of memories of the two of us around there.

It probably hasn't been as tough for me because I've been so busy since I got here. It will probably be tough the next few weeks as I get more settled in.

I do miss sex but I guess I'm not as desperate for it as other people seem to be

prinz · 21-04-2012 10:51PM

Long distance for four and a half years out of the last six.

Sinfonia · 21-04-2012 11:27PM

opinion guy wrote: »

I've seen it soooooooooo many times.

How many?

mardybumbum · 22-04-2012 12:35AM

My GF of four years had to get a job in Dubai for the year. We lasted about 9 months. Broke up 4 weeks ago.

Wouldn't recommend the auld LDRs. Pain in the hole.

darlett · 22-04-2012 01:10AM

opinion guy wrote: »

LDR's never work. Simple as.

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

What a stupid thing to say

opinion guy wrote: »

Oh by the way - reported for personal abuse

How the heck do you survive in AH if that counts as personal abuse? Cos oh by the way that was a stupid thing to say. Your slagging of Chasethelight goes far deeper yet she smiles it off while you go proudly reporting something which was fair assessment of a stupid statement. Have a word.

opinion guy · 22-04-2012 03:21AM

darlett wrote: »

How the heck do you survive in AH if that counts as personal abuse? Cos oh by the way that was a stupid thing to say. Your slagging of Chasethelight goes far deeper yet she smiles it off while you go proudly reporting something which was fair assessment of a stupid statement. Have a word.

Why don't you mind your own business ? Or if you have a problem with a post report it.
Its what I think. She said it was stupid. I reported it. I report personal abuse such as calling me stupid because its what your suppsoed to do and its better than getting neverending 'no your point is stupid' arguments. I didn't slag anyone(my dawson creek crack was intended as friendly banter and taken that way). Was it neceassary you comment on a conversation that has moved on ? Your just jumping on the band wagon and doing your own attempt at bullying. How about you comment on the issue instead of just trying to be a bully ? What do you think about LDR's ? You haven't said you've just had a go at me.

Touchy bunch you LDR believers are. Whats that about ?

El Weirdo · 22-04-2012 04:23AM

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davepatr07 · 22-04-2012 04:40AM

It works. Over a yr now and counting.

Spread · 22-04-2012 04:55AM

I know two couples that had LDR before meeting up and getting hitched. One pair met as penpals, she went to Ireland to check him out after a year or so, came back to the States to jack in her job and then returned to Ireland, got married and started multiplying (in a Biblical sense). Three kids (including twins) and are now grandparents. That was in the 70s. The other couple met online about ten years ago ......... again after a year or so they met ....... liked what they saw and got married shortly after. She was a widow with grown kids ........... he was a single parent (in Ireland) with one grown up child. Had a nice small wedding with all sprogs attending and now they live a couple of hours away. We meet up for weekends ...... cards and a few jars etc. The Lord works in mysterious ways ....... Hallelujah!

TheMonopolyGuy · 22-04-2012 05:03AM

I think people need to step back and look at the bigger picture.
Because for example if 5 people say "yeah, LDR's work. My now wife and I were long distance once" etc etc it does not mean every LDR works.

We should just go on the experiences of people we have known who've been in them. For me, i've heard more people say the relationship failed than were successful. ALOT more. So yeah some people can have sucessful ones. But the majority dont.

Spread · 22-04-2012 05:12AM

This may be because most people in successful relationships don't feel the need to discuss.

Susie_Q · 22-04-2012 05:15AM

I think LDRs can work if both people are busy and challenged in their work/ studies etc. If one person goes off on a crazy wild worldwide adventure and the other person is stuck at home in the same **** job they hate, then there will be problems for sure. I definitely think it would be harder to be the one left at home, in the scenario where one person emigrates for work.

What worked for me was that my OH just started a Masters degree when I left, so he has been constantly learning new things, meeting new people and working hard. He's not bored and this really helps.

It goes without saying too that you need total trust. If you're a jealous person then I really doubt an LDR will work for you.

TheMonopolyGuy · 22-04-2012 05:19AM

Spread wrote: »

This may be because most people in successful relationships don't feel the need to discuss.

I know where you are coming from...

But the majoirty of time (well for me anyways) People have said they dont work when the subject was randomly mentioned. As opposed to talking about it because of a recent bad experience (aka, harping on about it)

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