Hello Everyone!!
Hello Everyone!
My name is Sheri, and I recently found myself in a long distance relationship after thinking I would never get into something like this. I am from the USA and my SO is from Australia. We met online in a spades room. Go figure! We have never met in person.
We started talking to each other as friends in the last year or so and really started talking more outside of the spades world at the end of January. We moved on to talking endlessly on Facebook every single day and eventually in a week or so moved on to Skype. We now skype about 10 hours a day easily.
We have talked about me moving there and want that to happen as soon as possible without even the meeting situation first. But him being in Australia, I can only get a VISA to be there for 3 months to start. After that we have to live somewhere else or take a different approach. Neither of us want to get married again (of course this could change for me, not sure about him, but either way its ok).
Right now my main problem is getting to Australia to live as his de facto partner and being able to not worry about getting sent back. It's a hard and long process and very frustrating. I am totally in love with this man, and already feel more comfortable with him than I ever did any of my in person ex's.
I am on here to learn any ideas on how to make this process easier. I get lonely and depressed quite often from not being able to touch him right now. I am planning on trying to be there in 2 months from this post. He is pessimistic about it and keeps saying its going to be 2 years. I don't feel thats encouraging to me, but I understand where he is coming from. He doesn't want to get his hopes up. And since I am coming there, there isn't really much he could do on his part.
Any advice from anyone in a similar situation is appreciated. Thank you all and I look forward to reading your stories!
Sheri
My name is Sheri, and I recently found myself in a long distance relationship after thinking I would never get into something like this. I am from the USA and my SO is from Australia. We met online in a spades room. Go figure! We have never met in person.
We started talking to each other as friends in the last year or so and really started talking more outside of the spades world at the end of January. We moved on to talking endlessly on Facebook every single day and eventually in a week or so moved on to Skype. We now skype about 10 hours a day easily.
We have talked about me moving there and want that to happen as soon as possible without even the meeting situation first. But him being in Australia, I can only get a VISA to be there for 3 months to start. After that we have to live somewhere else or take a different approach. Neither of us want to get married again (of course this could change for me, not sure about him, but either way its ok).
Right now my main problem is getting to Australia to live as his de facto partner and being able to not worry about getting sent back. It's a hard and long process and very frustrating. I am totally in love with this man, and already feel more comfortable with him than I ever did any of my in person ex's.
I am on here to learn any ideas on how to make this process easier. I get lonely and depressed quite often from not being able to touch him right now. I am planning on trying to be there in 2 months from this post. He is pessimistic about it and keeps saying its going to be 2 years. I don't feel thats encouraging to me, but I understand where he is coming from. He doesn't want to get his hopes up. And since I am coming there, there isn't really much he could do on his part.
Any advice from anyone in a similar situation is appreciated. Thank you all and I look forward to reading your stories!
Sheri
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