New Thread...WHO are YOU?

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herro~

I'm 21, I live in Texas, am dating a wonderful 22 year old Albertan man (Albertan = from Alberta, Canada) who I originally met online. ^^ hopefully am moving to Edmonton in September as have applied to a university there. Yes, my boyfriend and I have plans to get married one day in the future, but he has to propose first.
Short and long of it. ^^

[LadyEcstsasy]

I'm almost twenty-two. My SO and I met at college about three years ago through mutual friends (and the fact that I often slept in the lounge of his dormotory). He left college because of grades, I stayed and ended up dating his ex-roommate. (Someone he disliked greatly). It was a mistake. So here we are, about three years later, (and two relationship later for me), he's in college again while I'm taking a break and I decided "why the hell not?" and asked him out.

We stumbled across LFAD when we were hitting some rough spots in our relationship. I owe a lot to this site for helping me settle down and sort out some issues I had been having. I hope that we continue to work through these issues and grow closer (and maybe even close the distance this fall) so that someday his promise turns out to be true and we do end up together forever and always.

Outside the relationship - I'm an avid writer and I hope someday to make a career out of it since I've been writitng since I was six years old. I love video games, books, art, theater, music, you name it. I take interest in just about anything and I love laughter

[ErikaH]

Hallo, I'm Erika. I'm 19, will be 20 in one month. I live in South Dakota for college, although I originally reside in Iowa. I met my SO online, and we've been together for 2 years. My SO lives in Georgia, but we're hoping to finally meet for the first time this summer. Google brought me to this site, because I wanted to see if other people were going through the struggles of a LDR. I'm glad I have other people to talk to about it.

[FadedSunrise]

I'm 20, an American born in China who has her heart tied to both countries. Still living at home with family during this crucial time of working for law school acceptance letters, and hopefully a year long study opportunity in China.

He and I met when I was studying abroad in Beijing last fall. I'm a fitness lover, he's a personal trainer, and after seeing each other in the gym so often we started making conversation. Then one day he randomly gets the idea to ask me to help him with English, and it all went from there

I'm definitely here for the amount of people who actually understand LDRs. Even my most well intended and supportive friends just dont' quite get it, because they haven't had to do it.

[iloveacarpenter]

Hi! I'm Alex- 18. The love of my life is Nathan- 20. We've been dating for 8 months (as of yesterday!) and long-distance for almost 6 of those months. As of now, he is in school in Pennsylvania and I'm in school in South Carolina. But, he is graduating in June and then will be working until I graduate in 2013 so we can start our lives together as husband and wife. We are both so thankful that God has brought us together and are so excited for this journey we're on. It may be hard at times, but I would do it all over again if it meant being with the love of my life.

[Marybutt]

I'm 21 years old, live in Texas, and am working a crappy little job barely making any money.
My boyfriend will be 24 in April, lives in Virgina, and is a full time student/works weekends as a bellboy.
We met in a PC video game and have been together for 2 years on the 24th of February~
He's visited me once for four days in August of '10 (7 months ago) and I get to go visit him in May for a whole week and 2 days of flying!!!!! It's the first time I've ever been on a plane and the fact I get to see him, his hometown, and his parents makes me both excited and nervous :B

Found this place while looking for advice on stuff to do with my bf over Skype. I bought the "Love Knows No Distance" bracelets and plan to break them out the day I fly back home. Before he flew home from his trip to me, I gave him a keychain and he cried really hard telling me it was perfect. *rubs eyes* The happy memories still make me cry!


(It's funny too, since I am plus sized and he is thin :B )

[Kiara]

About me

I m Italian, 22 years old, doing my first year of master in intercultural communication for business. At the moment I am studying at SUNY, new York, while last semester I was in salt Lake City, Utah. There I met my SO, who is 22 too and studies computer science. He is from Germany, but he is spending one year in Utah. So... This is the reason why I am flying there today!

[Alisz]

I'm 26 and I've been online since I was at least 13. So I know my way around :P I've been in 3 serious LDRs. The first 2 I take as learning experiences since just about everything that could go wrong in a LDR did...

My current relationship breaks all sorts of misconceptions for me. Ray lives in Vegas, yet he treats me better than any man has before whether close or far. I feel like I can talk to him about anything, we have very few disagreements and we're both computer/gaming geeks lol.

Since I live in Canada (Toronto) we're aware we've got a long road ahead of us before we can be together. The biggest obstacle in our way is the US/Canada border. Finances come in a very close 2nd. But we're committed to each other and as he says, "in it for the long haul." <3

I found LFAD while searching for things we could do together online besides playing WoW, L4D and any other co-op game we can get our hands on. XD I stay because it's nice to have people to talk to that understand. Also, all the success stories give me hope that it is possible LDRs can work out and become CDR. ^^

@Marybutt That keychain is too cute!

[Marybutt]

@Marybutt That keychain is too cute!

Thanks! I had bought it WAY early in the relationship before he really developed feelings for me so I hung onto it, feeling that level of awkwardness. When he came down he -who is not a very emotional person- cried several times in the visit telling me I made him feel true love for the first time. [controlling mother and bad long term ex-relationship made him feel like he was broken to feeling if he could like me all the way to call it love] I'm glad I held onto it because it really tied everything up before he left.

[Miramaid]

I am 26. I am Russian studying in the USA hoping to get my doctorate degree in 4 years. I am on here because my love lives in another state and I had to move here because of school and I needed support from people who are going through similar situations in their relationships. Our situation is kinda complicated and I do not know when we are going to close the distance, but I sure hope it will happen. So far we just try to see each other when we can.

[hillke]

The biggest obstacle in our way is the US/Canada border. Finances come in a very close 2nd. But we're committed to each other and as he says, "in it for the long haul." <3

MY boyfriend uses "in it for the long haul" too! I think its very sweet and comforting :-)

[adielovesshelbs]

im 18 and i live in florida. my SO is serving in afghanistan and the new expected date for him to return is june. the army never sticks to anything though. none of my friends have dated a military man nor have any of them been in a ldr. i need some support because none of my friends supported me. i love lfad, its so comforting to have people to talk to who actually understand. i got my college acceptance letter yesterday im aboutt to start college and hopefully my SO will be home soon.

[loveknowsnodistance27]

I'm Jen, I'm 18 years old and in an LDR with my boyfriend (Anthony) of almost 6 months, who has also been my best friend for the past 12 years. We are in an LDR because we're both freshmen in college, and he goes to school ~360 miles away. We're both committed to making it work! =] I found LFAD on Google and I am so glad I found you guys. You've helped me through so much and I probably would have lost my mind had it not been for this community lol. The distance is not easy and I only have one friend who is in a semi-LDR. None of my other close friends truly understand what my boyfriend and I go through for each other and they even question why we bother...why, because we love each other that much. <3 It sounds super lame, but it's the truth. We've both been really nerdy our entire lives and that's a good thing...I think it's cute lol. He's a computer science major and I'm a bio major, so we can get into some pretty nerdy conversations. XD We'll temporarily close the distance in Mid-May and then restart distance in September. This will go on for at least 5 years, but most likely 6 or 7, if he combines his masters with his undergrad degree. Hey, it's better than 8 or 9 years! Anyway, this LDR has taught me so much about myself so far and has truly strengthened our relationship. =]

[Zephii]

I am 23.
I'm an Australian living in Canada with my fiance, who's Canadian (obviously). We've been together two years, but in love for seven. <3
I'm still here because my friends are here and because the challenges of long distance don't stop when the distance does.
I hate being cold. I love to write.

[fbstj]

Hey, I'm Joe... a 20yo British nerd nearly finished with my degree in Maths and Computing.

I met my SO in a spamboard on a book forum, and we spammed, and then I stalked, and stalked some more. I went and stalked so much I added her on MSN, and we got all friendly, and the rest, they say, is history. We started skyping after I persuaded her, (well...maybe her ex was the one that persuaded her )

This is my first relationship, she won me over, totally flabbergasted me by whispering one evening that she loved me. The first time anyone's thought of me that way (she obviously doesn't know me well enough I say ). I fell over the edge from loving a friend, to being in love, without doubt best night of my life so far.

She'll be coming over for my graduation, I hope. I wanted to get out there before that, meet her family and do things properly (clichéd). But alas, my studies, and a few other issues like my lack of travel experience lead me to believe it wasnt possible (blame the parents ).

Yeah, did I answer the question? hehhe

Joe

Joe