Flights on Southwest are cheap between PHX and LAX, or through America West to LGB. Especially if you book in advance. With the cost of gas, skip the road trip and take flights.
Good luck to the both of you! I'm in So Cal and travel regularly to Phoenix, it's not much of a distance.
I love that drive, beautiful desert. Did it in February when I was in Tempe for a couple of nights... it's more like 7 hours when you take the LA freeway logjam into account.
As for LD relats, good luck, and it will only work if there is 100% trust and commitment both ways.
Good luck mate, I wish I still had a chance with the one I let go...
Me ex lives in Seattle. It didn't work out for us. It's kind of weird, because I still love her. It's a different deal though. We were both established in our own cities and neither of us wanted to move to the other. I was pretty happy seeing her every other weekend actually. She wanted more though...
There has to be an end in sight to make a long distance relationship work. I was involved in one for over a year. I was here in San Antonio and he lived in Detroit. We made it work for a while; daily calls, monthly visits, etc. It wasn't until we lost sight of when the long distance was going to end did the relationship start to fall apart. But it can work. I know it can. Trust. Sacrifice. And future plans. Plus all that other like love and good sex. Good luck!
Wait, is this the chick whom you were asking about keeping her sex tape?
Yes, and good thing I kept it, she wouldn't want it being destroyed now.
Thankfully I'm not that far.............and I think 8 months apart made us each realize how much we really missed and were meant for eachother.
This chance alone has me happier than I've been in a while.
Well good for you, I hope it works out; I've heard that it can . My long distance relationship didn't work out, was very sad and painful. The good that came out of it was that a student of mine knew what I was going thru and patiently waited till I recovered, then swept me off my feet! It's been 20+ years and I have never regretted the long distance relationship that led me to where I am now!
Pansy.............I would never let this happen to me.
It can work, I had one for 2 years. And I absolutely abhor long cel phone conversations so if I did it it can definitely be done.
My relationship has been somewhat long distance (actual distance is only a two hour drive, but busy schedules make it worse) for a little over a year and I am getting ready for a move/return to school that's going to move us even farther apart, but we've been making it work.
It sucks sometimes, and the first night in an empty bed after a visit isn't very fun, but it certainly doesn't mean the end of a relationship. Trust, honesty and commitment are essential, of course -- there's just no point in going through the motions if you're either ing around or constantly paranoid about your girl ing around.
Realizing you're getting closer to settling down is a big deal, so congrats on taking that step. You two make a cute couple.
When LJ and I met I lived in L.A. and he lived here. I flew back and forth every weekend (leaving L.A. on Friday night and returning Monday morning) for eight weeks. Then we finally decided we had to do something because it sucked. So he came to stay with me there for a month or so and then I moved here.
You aren't doomed but it's very difficult. Plus, I'm not sure what broke you up before, but if you have any trust issues, they will be multiplied exponentially by the distance
Seriously, it's not impossible but it definitely isn't easy.
Good luck.
That's the key. If you feel like the "long distance" part isn't ever ending, then it's really hard.
I can't believe you honestly think this will work.
At least when you break up this time, you know it will be for good.
I told you when you broke up that you'd get back together. Long distance didn't work for me but it can if you really work at it. You have to be more determined than ever and knowing you, you can do it. Address any problems/trust issues up front so they won't be a major problem later.
It definitely helps if you can set a time table for when you can be together, that gives you something to shoot for.
Good luck though, you are a cute couple.
I want an invite to the wedding.
It can definitely work but make sure that you don't let the distance cloud any real issues you would have if you were together.
Also, are you sure that one of you is eventually willing to move?
You guys are failing to mention the hardest part in all of this. Its not the time apart while you wait to be together on a regular basis. Its when you actually do get on the same page and are up each others asses with no room to breath and be alone. Thats usually when things go south.
long distance an getting back with the ex do not work!!!!
That's exactly right. I dated a girl about 7 hours away while finishing up college. It was great, we'd see eachother every other weekend and have a really good time together.
Then we both graduated and were suddenly living in the same city. As it turned out, neither of us liked eachother all that much when we were able to see eachother on a regular basis.
For us, it was the anticipation of seeing one another and the fun we had because it felt like we were "apart for so long".
I truly disliked this girl after we were in the same town.
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But this is a much different situation, Sanity Annex already lived with this girl for years so he know he can deal with her.
Not necessarily. It will be over 2 years before they'd have to deal with each other on a day to day basis again, no? That's a long, long time.
I don't get it, TSA. You decided once that the relationship wasn't strong enough to handle a long-distance thing, but after 8 months of not seeing her, now it is?
Don't listen to the people who say long distance can't work. Those are the people who can't make it work.
As mentioned above, you need an end in sight AND lots of trust.
It's not long distance that can't work. You're odds are as good as the work the two are willing to put in.
But LDR with an ex?
That's selective memory, IMO.
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