No way, Philip! It's fine. It's about romance and all is fair in love and war and all that stuff!

Long-distance of anything is tough. Good luck to those that travel on that road!

I had a long distance relationship (it was interracial). It would have been ok except she refused to move, and refused to let me move! Always having some reason or another about why we cannot be together - "not right now" she'd say.

Except my belief on a relationship is to live with my partner the majority of the time. So it sounds obvious to get out, doesn't it?

Unfortunately, love is blind, and it took me years to get out - all while she was sucking my funds, rarely directly asking for her bills to be paid, just tugging at my caring side with tales of woe. Other things she did,since I wasn't there to see, others have said she was fabricating or lying about things, but I had no evidence either way, just things I knew people said didn't add up, but I lack knowledge to know for sure.

Long distance anything is tough. In this country - sometimes the interracial is tough.

A double-whammy like that - nope. Can't do it.

Tried the long distance relationship - we were together for a brief time, then I moved for a job, she was to have followed. Then she got cold feet on the move. I would fly her out to see me, I would fly to see her, but it didn't last.

I don't think I'll try it again ever.

How has useage of the internet influenced willingness to try building long distance relationships?

Trust me, long distance romance is extremely hard to go through. I thought i would be able to handle it, but , at times it can be difficult.

Interestingly enough, I just entered into such a relationship. He is near Greensboro, NC and I am in Los Angeles, CA.

This is the first long distance relationship for the both of us. I have been in the process of making the move to the Chapel Hill area...will probably settle on Hillsborough, though since September 2007, finally settling on next spring/early summer of 2009. Then along comes the love of my life just a few months ago in April. The lucky thing is that I go to NC a few times a year, (because I have friends there and because I'm going to be moving there & I feel the need to familiarize myself with the area before I arrive there looking like a deer in headlights...lol)

Anyway. The fact that I am moving to North Carolina had already been set in motion almost a year before my love and I met...so...maybe that's a little bit different than someone moving across country (or continents) "for" someone? Not sure on that one.

Believe it or not, since neither of us really had any knowledge of how to make a long-distance relationship work, I went online and found these two very informative articles:

www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Lon...onship-Work
www.longdistancerelationships.net/

We talk on the phone for HOURS. Our original record was 14 hours straight but we've broken it with 16.5 hours straight. (I have the type of land line calling plan that is unlimited nationwide long distance) lol We talk at least a little bit everyday; we average about 3 hours a day on days that I don't have school at night (I'm at the end of grad school...ugh!;) and EVERY morning without fail he has left me some sweet email message. We're trying to work it out that he doesn't lose so much sleep...our three hour time difference can be difficult to maneuver around, especially if neither of us wants to hang up the phone...lol We have also done really sweet things like create music playlists for one another, peppered with songs that we want to share either because it's a favorite song, or it's a love song and is meaningful in that way. Our musical tastes are widely divergent, but because we are both total audiophiles, we can embrace the other's taste in music. And then and then and then .... Pardon me. I'm gushing. lol

My very, very best to all ...
kaiya

PS:
I have gotten all my co-workers addicted to the playlist thing...
it's free and you're only streaming it, not downloading it. so there's no copyright infringement weirdness. It won't have EVERY SINGLE thing you're looking for ... (like I can't find any psytrance, any of the breaks and only a tiny bit of drum n' bass. The downtempo/chill and country offerings are pretty decent, though.) Here it is, if you're interested: www.playlist.com