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Monday 7 July 2008

Long Distance

Do long distance relationships work? I've never been a believer myself. I don't think I could cope with constantly wondering what my man was doing and who he was doing it with. I think it would turn me into a paranoid, jealous wreck. I think that a couple must have seriously profound trust for a long distance relationship to work.

I mean, people who are working with me have chosen to have a long distance relationship. And I applaud them because it is something that i would NEVER choose to do. EVER. But what happens when it may be forced upon you? What happens when you have to come to terms with the fact that you may only see your boyfriend/girlfriend once every couple of months after you've been seeing them twice a week? How does it work? DOES it even work?

I would REALLY love to know your opinions on this. Because personally, the thought of having to go through it breaks my heart. :-(

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

ok so facebook tells me u need advice on your last post...
my experience is that you can make it work if you know the distance is temporary (even a few years is ok, as long as you know it will be over at some point)but if there's no perspective of one day being in the same place (country as in my experience)...it will hard, very hard

ganbatte

Anonymous said...

Didn't work for me, and I've no intention to give it another shot.

Anonymous said...

Well i know as a navy man its hard for a woman to stay commited to a guy who is gone 7 out of 12 months. It takes a special woman to do that but i know if you see a future relationship i was told its better to just work through it because when you to do see eachother again it makes that time so much more special. Yes it dose work ive seen it before.

Tony

Anonymous said...

Depends on the nature of the relationship,and how committed the two parties concerned really are.

I dont reckon I could do it,I'd become obsessive and paranoid