Well my last blog post was about preferring to be alone rather than with people with whom I don't have a real connection.
And today, I spent some time with someone who I really felt a nice connection with. She is one of my colleagues from work and she invited me to go to lunch and then to go on a walk in the woods. She is about 15 years older than me but we found out that we have a lot in common and that we have a similar outlook on life, which to me is the most important.
She is in a really similar situation. She met her SO while living in Morocco but now she has come back to France for various reasons. It was so nice talking to someone in a similar situation and I felt like we really understood each other. We both have been confronted with people's judgements of our relationships and I think spending more time with her will give me more confidence to stop caring what people think.
Already, I have improved so much in that regard. I used to really worry what other people thought of my relationship because my SO and I are "different". But in my mind, we are so similar. We have the same values, the same regard on many aspects of life, the same love of people.
But I am already improving in realizing that there with ALWAYS be someone that has a problem with us and our relationship for one reason or another. But as long as he and I are comfortable and happy and support one another, that is what matters.

So yay for a new LDR friend and for starting on a path toward not caring what people think!