Let's hear some Long Distance Relationship success stories!

DH and I met on a video game online about 9 years ago. 7 years ago we started dating and made it over 2 years before he moved close to me. He was 3 hours away. We got married 9 days ago.

We met in high school and were dating 7 months went I left our state for college. No one said we'd last, and we made it work 4 years long distance. Even though it was tough, It was nice learning how to be independent as a young adult outside of my relationship.

We met the first week of college, we were together until graduation, and then he moved to another state for work and I moved to a bigger city in the state we went to college. We spent a year a part and right after he proposed his work transferred him here! It was tough but well worth it

We met in college and started dating fall of our soph year, about a month before he transferred schools.

We were two states away.

Then I graduated and moved home so we were one state away from each other.

Then he graduated and moved to where his job offer was so we were now in the same state, but 2.5 hours away.

I finally moved in with him after 7.5 years of long distance.

Got engaged 1.5 years after living together.

Next week is our 10 year anniversary and the week after that is our wedding day

We met in college, my sophomore year his senior year, and started dating just a couple months before he graduated. Initially he didn't want to start dating because he didn't want to break up when he graduated because he didn't think long distance relationships worked. I convinced him to just let us see how the 2 months went and then we would decided what to do at graduation. Then graduation came and he didn't necessarily want to break up but still didn't think long distance would work. I convinced him that we could just see how it goes and worse case scenario it doesn't work out and we break up after a few months but no use in calling it quits without at least giving it a try. Long story short, did long distance for 2 years being half a country apart and only seeing each other for like a week every 3-4 months. Now we've been together for going on 7 years and he's pretty happy I didn't let him break up with me haha

My FH and I met online. There was a bit of a *glitch* in the site, as I only wanted to see matches within 60 miles. FH showed up, I clicked his picture and saw he was several states away, and was like NOPE. But he saw I viewed his profile, sent a very thoughtful message, and we began talking. We made several trips back and forth and I ultimately up and loved only four months after that first message! I've always been very indecisive, careful - it was a spontaneous decision to move so quickly and I have not regretted it once.

We met online and lived about 2.5-3 hours away from one another, and neither of us had a car/could drive. After some unexpected life events he moved in with my parents only a week after we became an official couple. Now we're living together in our own apartment, getting married in January, and our first born is due in June!

We were long distance for two years. He lived in Japan and I lived in NH. We worked out (obviously) but I'm always the first person to tell somebody not to do long distance. I'm such a downer.

Not me, but one of my BM and her husband were long distance for their entire 10+ year relationship (and not even driving distance- they had to fly back and forth). They’ve been married several years now and are incredibly happy.

We've been together for 7 years and will be apart 5 of those years. It has been difficult but is doable. It helps that we are both quite busy at work and keep ourselves busy outside of work! And we did live together the few years we were in the same city.

We're going to be long distance for another year after we get married but will both be looking for jobs in the same city after that.

When H and I met, we were living in separate countries. An eight hour difference. We had a strikingly short courtship due to the distance between us but felt long distance allowed us to talk to each other all day every day. I felt more connected to him than anyone I’ve ever dated despite our distance and the short time we’d been together. We saw each other every two months, either he came to me, I went to him, or we met somewhere in Europe (our engagement trip). We took a chance with our short dating relationship but we’re old enough to know what we want and what we have to do to make it work long term and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

DH and I met in high school, and he was a year ahead of me. We had been together for about a year and a half when he left for college 300 miles away. We stayed together, I ultimately picked a college about 45 minutes away from him, so we got to see each other on weekends during most of college, but he took a semester off (at home 300 miles away) and I studied abroad for a semester in Scotland (2000 miles away). He proposed shortly after I returned and we moved in together the day I graduated. Now we've been married for 4 years.

FH and I met when I lived in Tulsa, OK and he lived in San Diego, CA!

We flew back and forth every couple months...eventually I moved to Arizona to be closer to my family who had moved there..this made us only a 5.5 hr drive apart, for 4yrs I drove to CA all the time... I only moved to San Diego and in with him 1 month after we got engaged. In total, we have been together 7.5yrs!

So we met in the same town, but we were just friends. We were there for about 2 years before we started seeing each other, but then he took a new job which took him to a war zone on the other side of the world. So for the first 3 years of our relationship we were different-continent long distance! The first 9 months was the hardest by far--his job took him off of his base for long stretches and I wouldn't even hear from him. We went 7 weeks without so much as an email once. The last couple of years were easier because he was on base most of the time and so we could email/iMessage/FaceTime more easily. We saw each other for a total of about 8 weeks between August 2013-October 2016, when he came home for good.

It was SO HARD. But it made us very, very good at communicating with each other.

My fh and I met when I was 19 and were together for a year before I had to move to another state to live with my mom. I lived with her for a year and a half with him driving 2.5 hours to see me every other weekend( I didn't have a car so I couldn't drive to him) we finally saved enough for me to move back and us get our own place. Been together 12 years now.

We lived 4 hours apart. We met at a summer camp about 10 years ago. I was 14, he was 15. We dated for about 3 years and broke up because of the distance because we couldn't see each other very often because we were both still in high school. Then halfway through college we connected again and started visiting each other about every other week. He was always the guy I compared other guys to, and no matter how hard I tried to forget about him, no one could ever make me feel as incredible as he always has.

FH and I graduated in the same high school class. We didn't end up reconnecting and actually getting to know each other until the summer before out sophomore years of college. We started dating a couple months after school started again, 3 hours apart. We dated the rest of college and moved into a new house together when FH got his teaching job after college. We've lived together 3 more years now and will be married this coming summer! Long time coming but worth every minute!

My now husband and I were an hour apart and only spent every other week together for the first 7 years of our relationship! We moved in together last year and were married last week.. There were tough times, no doubt, but it truly was the best path for our relationship. We are a great team and so in love..

My FH and I met online in January 2015, and lived about 45 mins away. 5 months in he left for a yearlong deployment. He came back, moved to DC (3 hours from our hometowns), so I only saw him on the weekends because I couldn't find a job there. In April 2017 he left for a 13 month deployment so we're doing long distance again. It sucks spending the majority of our relationship apart, but it's made us really focus on communication.

Do deployments count? FH is in the Marine Corps. Met online and started dating, 4 months later he was sent to Japan for 1 year and 9 months. We learned to live with it but it was hard as anything. He's been back now about a year and a half and we are getting married in May!

Edited because I can't spell