Success Stories

Name: Thomas
Place: worchester, United States
Year: < 1 year(s)
Distance: 600

well, I can't really call this a success, yet, because we've never met in person, but anyway, I met my love on an online forum. We both quickly became good friends and started messaging every chance we got. A few months later, I realized that I had a really big crush on her, and a few weeks later, I knew I was in love. It took me another 3 weeks to build up the courage to tell her (being a complete zombie due to lack of sleep helped =D) and all day I was hitting myself for it. Well, eventually I got a message back, and basically she said that she needed more time and I told her to take all the time she needed. A few excruciating days of not talking to her later, I got a message from another one of my friends (from the same forum) and he said that she had been talking to him about this (I can understand why, he's a great guy (that rhymed!)) and he said that she had said that she really liked me, but she just wasn't sure if she loved me yet. He said that he thought she did love me, she just couldn't get over the distance thing. Eventually she came back and we acted like the friends we used to be. Over the summer, I took a vacation for a week or so (meaning I couldn't talk to her that whole time =( and when I got home, there was a message in my email from her. That was the greatest day of my life (you can probably guess what it said). We started talking over IM every chance we got, but we've never called each other because of protective parents (mine and hers <_<). I have plans to meet her, but there are a lot of if's in them...she lives near a collage, and that collage happens to be one I want to go to, but it's also one that's hard to get into....

Name: Rebecca Kulak
Place: Sydney, Australia
Year: 2 year(s)
Distance: 7558

I live in Australia and he lives in the US, when we met I was 15 and he was 17.

We met on the online game World of Warcraft in September 2006. We started off just casual talking, with no intention of ever being more than friends, in fact, at the time we would have been the last people we'd ever expect to have a relationship with. Only one month later we were talking several times a week for hours, and he asked me to become his "online girlfriend" and so with no idea where it would lead, and just having fun, we became an online couple.

For 5 months we spoke almost daily, progressing to using a headset and hearing each other's voices. And it had taken 5 months, to finally say "I love you" to each other, and we truly meant it. We then saw what each other looked like for the first time through sending photos, our passion for each other grew. We spoke every single day for up to 4 hours, sometimes on the weekends we'd spend 10 hours together, playing games and watching movies online with each other, we'd gotten to know one another like no one else had.

We decided to meet each other and planned a trip for me to go to the USA during his summer school break in July 2008. We waited 8 months to meet, it was the worst thing we'd ever had to cope with, as we were desperately in love and knew we even wanted to marry each other.

The trip came and went, it was the best 4 weeks of our lives, and during it he proposed to me on a sunset beach and gave me the most beautiful ring.

We've been separated 3 months since then and it is absolute torture, but also the best thing that's ever happened to us. I wouldn't regret meeting him for the world, and although for weeks at a time the depression of being separated hurts more than ever, we won't stop at our goals. We're trying to save up to see each other again, and for me to immigrate to the US so we can marry. It's been a total of 2 years separation, and we've promised we'll wait whatever it takes for each other. I know for a fact that love does truly conquer every part of your life if you let it, and I can honestly say I've never been happier despite the circumstances.

For anyone with any doubts about long distance relationships, it can be done, and if you do in the end you'll have something unbreakable. :)

Name: Nicole Odell
Place: San Francisco, United States
Year: 1 year(s)
Distance: 433

Me and my boyfriend met in middle school, and began dating freshman year of high school. We dated for seven months, broke up, and saw other people while remaining close friends for 5 or 6 years. I had always had a little bit of a crush on him, however.

I know that so far that doesn't sound like a success story, but here's the good part. He was a big part of my support during a difficult breakup, even though he went to school in Long Beach and I was going to college in San Francisco. We had lost a little bit on contact since we had left high school, but we began talking frequently again. We were now both single, but not really looking for a relationship; we were just talking because we were friends.

Then in October of last year, a little more than a year ago, he invited me to his mother's wedding; she had decided to remarry. (I actually kind of invited myself, because I love weddings, but he didn't seem to mind signing me up to be his +1.) Even though his mother's house was only about twenty minutes from my childhood house, where I was visiting my parents at the time, I offered him a place to stay at my house the night before the wedding and he accepted.

That night we ended up cuddling on the couch watching movies, and the tension between us built to a breaking point. However, neither of us had the guts to do anything about it. He fixed that early the next morning, when he came into my room to wake me up for the wedding (we had to help set up) and since I refused to get out of bed, he decided to climb in. That morning, we kissed again for the first time in years, and even though I was sleepy, I remember it perfectly.

The first couple of months were confusing, as being long distance and me just out of a relationship complicated things. We wanted to be absolutely sure that we wanted to really try for long distance before we made that decision. However, we still made the effort to see each other whenever we could. Because of this "waiting period," we ended up saying "I love you" to each other before we were "officially" dating. I might have been the happiest woman alive when he said the words to me one night; I had been having trouble keeping myself from telling him "I love you" for several weeks.

Then, during a visit just after Valentine's Day, he once again brought up the idea of us being officially together. Looking at him, I realized that there was nothing else I wanted more in the world than to be with him, and I agreed to go for it, for the long haul.

We have been "officially" together for about nine months now, and been romantically involved for over a year. We have two or three more semesters of school left, and we plan to move in together as soon as we don't have to be apart for school any more. We are majoring in similar fields, so we plan on finding a city to live in that will help us both with our careers. I couldn't be more in love with him, and yet somehow every day I fall a little deeper. Our families all get along, we have the same wacky sense of humor, we both want to get a dog. But all of this, while it helps, isn't at the center of our relationship. That is something deeper and something a little harder to describe. Being apart from him hurts, sure. It's hard every single day. But we make the time for each other and we know what we have is real and wonderful. The payoff at the end of this period of separation will be that much sweeter from all the hardships, which can only make us stronger.

I hope this story made you happy, and I wish all of you luck in your relationships. Keep the faith.

Name: Michelle Davis
Place: kansas city, United States
Year: 4 year(s)
Distance: 600

I met the love of my life on aim of all places. Thanks to another friends contact list. I started talking to him randomly and it led to a month of talking and finally a meet.

We just celebrated four years of being together. I believe long distance relationships can make your bond weaker or stronger.We enjoyed one year together before I decided to leave our home state of Georgia to attend college in Missouri. We've been in a long distance relationship for 3 years now. We get to see each other every two to three months. I wouldn't want anyone else. The hardest thing is missing all the little things like dances or going to the store together.You get use not celebrating holidays together or maybe not celebrating your anniversary together on the actual day. You see other couples all cuddled up and you wonder why can they be together and you and your love can't. I mean your bond is way stronger than yours right.

It's been a roller coaster and you really learn how to love a person inside and out. If your relationship is bulit on physical you won't work. Right now I would just like him to be in the next room playing a video game.I never knew missing someone could really hurt.

We are coming to the end of our road now. In 8 months he's planning on moving up here. I have been shopping for apartments and all the cute stuff that fits in an apartment. I'm very excited but it's been a struggle because we've had to move back the moving date 3 to 4 times now because of money or school. Its very hard to keep hope. I may want to give up sometimes but I know deep down it's never an option for me.

One of the hardest things is having no one that relates to your situation. None of my friends know how it feels. Usually I get a I'm SORRY or THAT SUCKS. What's even harder is when people are against your long distance relationship and they try to convince you to give up.

My heart is with all long distance relationships. I give you love and a hug.

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