Hello Everyone,
I'm happy to find this Forum where I can share me feelings and frustrations with people who are also in LDRs and can judge my situation from a perspective which is similar to mine.
I'm in a LDR since May 2014 with a Taiwanese guy who lives in South Africa. I was quite against the relationship at the beginning but my boyfriend insisted a lot and convinced me to try things with him.
He visits me every 4-5 months and last year we decided to go a step further and introduce each other to our families, which became a disaster to me. When he came to meet my parents things went very well, even though it was difficult to convince my conservative Turkish father. But he respected my decision at the end and accepted him. But when I went to South Africa to meet his parents, things started off nicely but it came out that they didn't like me at all and mostly because of cultural differences. Especially his sister was totally against me she called me rude and fake, I also saw her messaging him that I'm not good enough and my boyfriend deserves better.
And of course it was a big disappointment to me, because he told me that I have to move to Johannesburg to live with him in the future because he can't leave. They have a family business and his parents aren't allowing him to leave the business. And I was going to do this but the dislike his family has to me changed my mind.
Short after I came back to Turkey my father passed away. He was already sick and in need of my and my mother's care, from bathing to changing diapers we were doing all his care for a while. After a few months of my father's death my uncle also died. These events made my troubled brother even worse and he came from Germany where he lives recently for a few times. He is a person with personality disorders and gets violent towards me.
Of course all these bad events killed all my hope and joy. I had to deal with all these funerals and my brother's violence on my own, because I was in a LDR. I feel lonely and very hopeless for a long time. And now and then I tell these to my boyfriend which makes him upset and we end up fighting.
He blames me for exaggerating the issue of his family, told me many times I should try to makes his family like me instead of running away. He is offended that I have no hope and feel lonely. He says for me he is a ghost, I can't appreciate his existence etc.
I'm really tired too depressed to make people who judge me without even knowing me properly, like me. I also want to be able to tell him how I feel, because he is ok me being far away doesn't mean I will feel the same while I need him a lot during such a time.
I really have no idea how to keep my hope up. What are you doing to survive these kind of difficult times when your loved one is away and not able to understand your situation and feelings?
I'm happy to find this Forum where I can share me feelings and frustrations with people who are also in LDRs and can judge my situation from a perspective which is similar to mine.
I'm in a LDR since May 2014 with a Taiwanese guy who lives in South Africa. I was quite against the relationship at the beginning but my boyfriend insisted a lot and convinced me to try things with him.
He visits me every 4-5 months and last year we decided to go a step further and introduce each other to our families, which became a disaster to me. When he came to meet my parents things went very well, even though it was difficult to convince my conservative Turkish father. But he respected my decision at the end and accepted him. But when I went to South Africa to meet his parents, things started off nicely but it came out that they didn't like me at all and mostly because of cultural differences. Especially his sister was totally against me she called me rude and fake, I also saw her messaging him that I'm not good enough and my boyfriend deserves better.
And of course it was a big disappointment to me, because he told me that I have to move to Johannesburg to live with him in the future because he can't leave. They have a family business and his parents aren't allowing him to leave the business. And I was going to do this but the dislike his family has to me changed my mind.
Short after I came back to Turkey my father passed away. He was already sick and in need of my and my mother's care, from bathing to changing diapers we were doing all his care for a while. After a few months of my father's death my uncle also died. These events made my troubled brother even worse and he came from Germany where he lives recently for a few times. He is a person with personality disorders and gets violent towards me.
Of course all these bad events killed all my hope and joy. I had to deal with all these funerals and my brother's violence on my own, because I was in a LDR. I feel lonely and very hopeless for a long time. And now and then I tell these to my boyfriend which makes him upset and we end up fighting.
He blames me for exaggerating the issue of his family, told me many times I should try to makes his family like me instead of running away. He is offended that I have no hope and feel lonely. He says for me he is a ghost, I can't appreciate his existence etc.
I'm really tired too depressed to make people who judge me without even knowing me properly, like me. I also want to be able to tell him how I feel, because he is ok me being far away doesn't mean I will feel the same while I need him a lot during such a time.
I really have no idea how to keep my hope up. What are you doing to survive these kind of difficult times when your loved one is away and not able to understand your situation and feelings?
I am afraid I don't really have advice for you but a question: has he spoken to his family (other than the sister) and flat out asked them how they feel about you? 
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