guys...do you think long distance relationships can work?

Question

my boyfriend and i used to live in the same town but i moved about and hour away... do you think it can work and what can i do to make it easier

Answer 1

Absolutely it can work. My husband and I were long distance for the first six months of our dating life, and the first year of our marriage. We were about five hours from one another. You are only an hour and a half that is nothing! We have been married almost eight years now, and my husband travels regularly for his job. We are very happily married. The time aparts makes us appreciate one another even more.

Think of all the military families that are living apart. They are an ocean away; you are a short car ride. You can make it work as long as you want to.

Answer 2

My boyfriend and I live 85 miles apart. With all the traffic, it ends up being a two hour drive. We used to see each other every weekend, but with our work schedules, and the price of gasoline, we have cut back to twice a month.We talk on the phone at least once a day. And, we are both on Yahoo Messenger, so we can leave each other IMs even if we aren't online. It is hard, and we have split up a couple ot times, but we know eventually, we will be together full time. You just have to hang in there.

Answer 3

1 out of 100

It is destined to fail (sorry to say).
No matter how you look at it - the relationship will be very stressed!
1- Stressed from not knowing for sure where the other is
2- Stressed from not knowing for sure whom the other is with
3- Stressed from not knowing for sure if the other is truthful

Once that doubt starts to creep in - you are doomed!
Guys love long distance relationships because the can sneak strange in!
(Strange = not the same girl every night, someone strange)
You might be all for it BUT he is more than likely Double Dippin'!

You have to make the final choice - but I would suggest breaking it off - on good terms - until y'all are older and if at that time you want to move closer to each other and still wanna get back together - then my Dear it is a Golden relationship!

Good Luck

Answer 4

I've been in one for 4 years now. He lives in Germany and i'm in California (USA), so one hour is not far for me. They are hard work and take a lot of communication, trust and honesty. If you two can both do that then you are off to a good start. webcams are a big help because you can see eachother online. Letters are good too because they are more personal and its nice getting a surprise in the mail. Since you are not too far away you two can plan to meet up in neutral places like a movie thearter that is between where you and him live. It can work if you both want it to. Good luck. Let me know if you have anymore questions :)

Answer 5

Generally long distance relationships are the hardest to maintain, but its not a automatical fail situation. It all depends on how much commitment is there, and truefully constant connection with each other. I was in a long distance relationship with a girl that lived a hour away from me, but it didn't pull through on other reasons. It all depend on how much you stay contact and informed on each other, and how strong the relationship itself was and still is. Phone calls, internet, constant seeing of each other in person at least a week at a time, the more than better. It all depends if you guys stay committed. It no point to have one if you guys aren't caring to stay connected in reasonable sense.

Answer 6

Its going to be very hard to make a long distance relationship work. Making a relationship work while living in the same state is hard imagine not seeing the person for a while. So you can call him so and so often and make sure he's ok and if he feels that connection then it will work remember love overcomes all :....

Answer 7

Good God if you're in LA everyone's an hour away! I had a long distance relationship with a woman I truly loved but it waned over time because of the distance and few oppurtunities to see each other

Answer 8

One hour away is not a long distance. No reason for it to not work out. Just get together at least every weekend and it will be wonderful! Do not worry. Long distance is like when you can't see each other except for every two or three months. One hour away is very doable.

Answer 9

If you have a vehicle an hour is nothing. I live in Texas. We live in a small town and Dallas is the closest big city it's about two and half hours away. We go to Dallas about four times a month.

Also if you trust eachother then there will be no problems. You will get lonely really fast and feel all by your self. But you have to remember when you are looking at the stars he's looking at the same stars, you aren't that far apart.

Somethings to do that help are to call eachother as soon as your day begins, like if you both get up at seven am for school or work or what ever, make 10/20 minutes of special time for the two of you on the phone. Then make sure you talk each day before you go to sleep.

Write letters. Stamps are to cheap. It is so much more fun to come home to your mail box and find a hand written letter from the one you love. Way better than email. If you have myspace or a face book leave eachother love messages everyday, so you both know that there is still someone there loving you and missing you.

Spend time together whenever possible, since the time together will be much farther apart then usual it will be much more special when you do get to see eachother.

When you go shopping pick something out for him and mail it to him, a just was walking through the store shopping saw this and thought of you kind of gift.

My husband works on the giant windmills and for the last seven months he has been working in Iowa and New York state. So we have gotten to see eachother for four days every two months. And I won't lie to you it has been very hard, but I love him and I will do anything for him.

I leave letters in his suite case when he goes back on the road, and mark them like
"open me the first day back to work"
"open me on our three year two month anniversary"
"open me when you are really bored" (usually a funny one)
"open me when you are sad"
"open me on saint pattis day"
"open me when you miss me so bad it hurts"
"open me the day you get on the plane to come home"
so on and so forth. Then he has something special in his suite case that I really planned out and took loads of time on.

I buy him little presants and save them for when he gets home. I cook him his favorite meals when we are together instead of going out to eat. I take pride in doing things for him that I usually took for granted like doing the laundry and being able to snuggle on the couch.

You just have to be creative and keep it fun and special, so he knows how much you miss him and how much you are going to be there for him weather he is five minutes away for five hundred miles away.

I have been blessed the new job site is only 1 1/2 hours from our home, so i'll see him three days during the week and two days on the weekend, so we'll only be apart two days a week for the first time in seven months.

Good luck, it is hard, it is possible, and you can do it!

Answer 10

I dont think of anybody needs to have an prolonged distance dating. existence occurs and gets interior the way, you merely would desire to artwork around it. If somebody ought to be with their long distance BF or GF adequate/or they love them adequate, they'll circulate to the place the different individual is and supply up the long distance element. those people who've relationships over the internet or out of state "merely by means of fact" are in all risk dropping their time. long distance relationships wont final if there isnt dedication.