LDR has made people finally take our teenage relationship seriously!

[Killtrend]

Noted. I'll stay out of threads such as this from now on.

Carry on.

[floridaellen]

Okay, I'm saying this as the resident person on this board who is too blunt and sometimes mean, and someone who admittedly thinks 99% of relationships that start in the teenage years will not last: dude, you're being really condescending. Yes, OP strays into melodramatics, but she's 16 and in the throes of her first love. It's a heady time. She's not going to listen to anything you say, and neither will any of the younger people here. Whether or not it's "real" love is irrelevant, and pointing it out like this only makes you look immature yourself.

Thank you.

[Brendon]

I totally understand how you feel........for me, my story is hard to believe but it is true.

my SO and i met in 2007. we started going out on march 22nd 2007. i was 12. yes you read that right.TWELVE. she was 14. of course, no one took us seriously....especially my parents. they kept saying things like "what would you know about love?". but the thing was, after time, we really did love eachother. unconditionally. all the time around us people at school would get together, break up, get together, break up. and we were in our own world.

the first year passed, then the second, then the third, then the fourth. i had to move to the US in summer 2010. we are 6,910 miles apart, across the pacific ocean. and i have not seen her since. but we have held on. it is our fifth year this month. and its both of our first time relationships. pretty hard to believe right? its been almost 20 months since i've last seen her, but our relationship is as strong as ever.

this year i am turning 18, and she is turning 20. its pretty amazing when i think back on it. i was but 12 and she was 14, and we both had no experience whatsoever in relationships. i suppose you cant really blame people for thinking that we would break up quickly, given the circumstances. but i just wanted to share my story because teenage relationships CAN last. its just a matter of how much effort you put into it.

last but not least, i am extremely excited, because at the end of this month, just a week after our 5th year anniversary, im flying back across the ocean to see her for the first time in nearly 2 years. you can imagine how excited i am :P but above, you shouldnt care about what other people think, you should care instead of what you make of your situation.