do long distance relationships work?

Not for me they dont, i was with a guy from birmingham [im from london] for about 5 months, and after a while, when you dont see eachother you miss them too much and then you get bored. well we did anyway! They moght for different people tho!

nope.

right now i am in a long distance relationship sorta with a guy I met in summerschool. he lives in a different city than I do about a 30 minute drive.

right now i am in a long distance relationship sorta with a guy I met in summerschool. he lives in a different city than I do about a 30 minute drive.

so it depends on the distance and if you're willing to take the risk of not being able to see that person!

Yes, they can definately work if you have the dedication! It takes a lot of trust and commitment. I've been in a long distance relationship with my guy for 5 months, and it just makes everytime we see each other so much more special! He's coming home tomorrow, but only for a day because he has exams at uni. He lives 6 hours away, by the way.

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In the end do they not move in together? Proving that they do not work.

what if your just away from them for 3 and a half months?=/

I hope they do work, because I'm goin to university soon and I will be a couple of hundred miles away from my boyfriend, I know they say that you shouldn't have a B/F when at uni, but I do love him and he loves me, he says that he is prepared to drive the journy every weekend!!!

It works if you both want it to work..

-BJ

It does not work, the couple ends up moving in together. No one can have a twenty-five year long, long distance relationship.

THEY DO WORK!!!! if you love them truely then it will, thats why it works for me!!!!

sure, long distance relationships work, if 2 people try very hard to keep the relationship strong. i'm sure anything is possible.

if you really work at it and trust one another.

I hope they work, cause my relationship is about to become a long distance one. But I'm shure that if there is live in the middle, it must work out.

uhm, you can try all you want. But long distance relationships usually dont work because their never around, you're tempted to do things you'd regret. And then when you need your love the most, their not their. Plus how can you trust someone whos so far away, when for all you know they could have 3 other girlfriends in 3 different states.

stay away from long distance relationships.

Unless pain is your thing. eh.

you have to work twice as hard it up to you to see if they really will work.

myself i try to stay away from them because i cant see working that hard unless you are sure that they are the only one for you.

If you both truly love each other and want them to work then yes they will..sorry if this is a repeat to some of you, but to others it might be new..I met my now husband Craig on this site..I will be 33 in a few days and he is 35...neither of us came on this site looking for love, we came because we love to write poetry. In fact, in the beginning, Craig didn't want to leave England(he was from England, me Wisconsin, USA..LONGGGGGGG distance!!!)and after visiting I can't say as tho I blame him one bit!!! Long story short, he came over for 3 months last summer after we started to chat and talk on the phone for hours a day, (neither of us had ever experienced anything like the connection we had, even tho we are in our 30s)(which isn't old at all but there are a lot of teens here, which is why I write that) we decided we couldnt live w/o each other and began the visa process which took about 7 months. he moved over in Jan. of this year and we got married March 26 of this year!! and are so happy together...we spent many months apart tho(I visited last Nov. for two weeks) and that was rough..but we did it. We would rather have been apart for a while than not ever be together again...just depends how badly you both want it..but yes, It can/does and DID ;) work! :) Michelle (and Craig)

well it all depends how devoted the couple is. I was dating a guy but he ended up moving to Europe. I know i still love him ppl say he loves me too and wants to go out again so i guess if you can make it work. Long distance relationships work out fine. As long as the guy/girl is commited and not using you.

It kind of depends..most people say no which I don't blame them because its hard for a lot of people to go on for a long time without having someone to hold or kiss or go on dates, but then there are some people who are very commited and will go on forever to make things work.

I live in Illinois & was dating a man in Ohio for about 1 1/2 years. He was an old navy buddy of my brother's. He is a Maritime worker (an engineer in the control room of the ship) He spent almost all of his time off the ship with me in Illinois. He was a wonderful man- treated me great-very handsome-had more money than he knew what to do with, but all of that still left a void in my life. I wanted someone to spend time with & with him it would be like that until he retired, which at the time was 20 years. I broke it off...it was hard & I wondered for a long time if I had done the right thing, but I am really happy now. He got married & his wife ended up cheating on him & left him because he was never home with her. I truly hope he finds someone who can handle it, because he is an awesome guy.

I think it CAN work, but it takes a very special kind of person to be able to endure it.

never works for my friends.

A relationship, any relationship, works on what is put into it by both parties. If both people put all they can into a long distance relationship, it will work as well as any other relationship in which both people give everything they can for the relationship. Relationships, all relationships, have two halves. If one half is smaller, the relationship is not whole. It depends on both people to survive.

Just my humble opinion.

Timothy Bledsoe

if you both truly love each other and want to be together then it probably will work. peace

~babygirl88~

nope

No. I am in one. And its not working, even though, he proberly thinks it is.

It is hard work. You have to watch what you say and would you do, just to make sure, nothing happens with another person. I didn't and know my lifes a mess. You just got to really hope that it works out. Be strong

i was recently ago in a long distance but while dateing him i got a chance to meet him and when i did he looked the same everything but i noticed i didnt like him at all just cause someone might be funny and talkitive on the net dont meen he is in real life

I believe some long-distance relationships work. I've been in mine for about 2 months, and she lives about 30 min. away, but we both trust each other, and we are comminted to the reltionship. And now we're gonna get engaged, just don't know when I'll ask lol. Plus I think long distance relationships are a little bit better if it's not to far, because if your dating someone that lives close and you see them all the time, you kind of smother each other and get on each others nerves a little more, where as long distance relationships, when you only see each other 2 times a month, it just makes those days 100x better! At least that's how I feel!

I lost my best friend in the whole entire world. I'll never meet anyoen else in the world like this girl. She was my best friend and she always will be...

but she chose her boyfriend over me when she moved... It was the saddest thing in the world. They're still working out...

But me n' her ... we're not...

So yeah... they do work.. There's just some consequences...

I was in a long distance relationship for 3 years. Which is the longest relationship I've had yet. Sometimes they do work...but from what I've seen they really don't. So I guess I am an example of how they can SOMETIMES work out...you don't always have to be around eachother every week and such to be in love. You can be on the otherside of the country and still be with him...all you have to do is believe the relationship can work..even in close distance relationships. Hope that makes sense to ya mate. Cheers!

Tari

it's not good to have long distance relationship... but it would be nice to have long distance friends...
-Steven

I think it would be very difficult to have a long distance relationship unless you totally trust the other person, i've never trusted anyone enough to have even considered continuing a relationship if either one of us had moved away. I guess if both people are detemined to make things work then it will somehow work out.