Let's hear some Long Distance Relationship success stories!

FH and I met the summer after I graduated college, came home, but was moving again 4 hours away to serve with AmeriCorps. I always say we met at the most inconvenient time but it really showed me early on he was willing to make the effort and cared about me much more than I originally thought. The first time he visited me was when I truly fell head over heels. I didnt last away from him too long, and actually transfered with AmeriCorps to a location near home to still finish out my year of service!

My FH and I have been long distance from the beginning. 900+ miles distant, in fact! We met through mutual friends and he has family here, but making it work has been WORK! Worth it though, since I get to marry my best friend in less than a year. <3

FH and I were long distance (like, he was in Nevada, and I was in Maine) for a year. We were LD when we decided to be together, and we did everything to make it work. After a year, we moved in together in a 500 sq ft studio that we had for 3 years. After that, and everything we went through during that time, we knew we would get married (we will have been together 7years when we get married). But for that first year he lived on my ipad hahah.

Met my FH during our freshman year during college. After freshman year, he decided to transfer to a tech college two hours away. We would try to see each other whenever we could. After he got his tech degree, he moved in with me while I was still in school. He then got deployed for a year. We pretty much spent 3 1/2 out of 6 1/2 years in a long distance relationship. We now live together and have a dog. My FH will also be graduating from the university of Florida 2 months after we get married! I’m so thankful I live in era of Skype and FaceTime.

H and I met online and were about 2 hours distance for the first 4 months (I lived in Chicago). Then he moved back to his hometown, 5.5 hours away. Six months later I got a temporary assignment for work (turned into one year) 10 hours from him. After that year I moved back to Chicago, and we were long distance for two more years. So just under 4 years total, varying distances. We got engaged in March, married in October, and next month will be 6 years together.

My brother and SIL were friends in high school, but started dating in college when they were about 10 hours apart. They spent about 3 years long distance. They were also together about 5 years before getting married.

Baby brother is currently in college. He and his gf dated "in person" his senior year of high school, then have been long distance all through college. They celebrated 4 years a couple of months ago. TBD what city they will be in (and whether it'll be the same one) after graduation in May.

Seems it's kind of a thing in my family.

We met one summer towards the end of college! FH and I were 7 hours apart for our first year of dating, 4 hours apart for the second year, and then moved in together after that! We also did long distance for about 4 months this year due to moving and job logistics but the engagement helped with that

FH and I met at my home church while I was home for the weekend from school. We talked for a few months and when I came home summer we got closer and then by October we were dating while I was 2 1/2 hours (142 miles) and we have been long distance for 2 years officially. I am graduating in May and were getting married in June.

I know it isn't as long as others, but we don't do communication well long distance and would rather be face-to-face. We have our struggles and our challenges, but we are doing and making it and I cant wait to marry him in 201 days!!

Ours is quite the LDR doozy.

I was living in Los Angeles after college and he was back home in VA finishing his degree. We went to the same HS in VA, and he remembered 'noticing' me though we had never properly met. He messaged me one night in 2012 on Facebook and we talked for three months almost constantly. When I came home for a visit we had our first date. Not the most impressionable, he was super nervous and just ate his burger like a caveman. I decided since we had such rapport talking to give it a chance. He came out to visit me in LA 2 months later, and again early the next year, and I moved back east the next year for a myriad of reasons.

Fast forward one more year and he enlisted in the Army, a longtime dream of his. He kind of went the reverse route and got his degree first then joined the service. Spent months, years away from each other with basic training - meaning NO contact save for handwritten letters and one call every few weeks (if you missed it, sucks for you), AIT (which is training for ones' specialty in the service- 6 months) I visited him in the middle of nowhere America a few times, we got lucky and he got stationed one state over so we saw each other every weekend, he drove down unfailingly to be with me, and then a deployment to Afghanistan where our time difference was basically completely flipped schedules. Three years in the service have passed and now he is out, we live together and will be married next September. I'll tell you - I saved every single handwritten letter and I cherish them like gold. Nothing is more romantic than handwritten letters

Long distance for basically our entire relationship, but it can work. We Skyped, Face Timed, watched movies and synced the times up together, long phone talks, etc. It sucks sometimes, it really does. But if you have that connection no distance can break you. We started long distance and now is the first time we are actually really living together (at my parents' - intentionally saving until we are wed to get our own place). Communication is HUGEEEEE. For any MILSO's, know that you will be together again. It's also good to foster a relationship within yourself so you can be independent. As Kelly Clarkson has said, you shouldn't be 'each others' better half - you should be whole on your own - they should just be your best teammate.'

Military--he was in training in Virginia for 6 months while I was living in Michigan. I drove down every two weeks and stayed the weekend. He proposed 10 days after he was done there.

Although, we had lived together for two years before this so the long distance part was short by comparison. Still felt like forever though.

Me and FW met at a concert, I lived in NY, she lived in Cali. Friends for 3 years, she would visit NY a lot, 10 times in those 3 years. Then she moved to NY, we started dating. She moved back to Cali after a year. We did long distance for 8 months and then, I moved to Cali. Lived about 45 mins away from each other for 5 years, so we saw each other every weekend - then moved in together :-)

We met in college, but he graduated two years before me. There was a four hour gap between us for two years before I moved near him for grad school. We also did long distance when I was Ireland for a semester as well

We met about 6.5 years ago online. He became my best friend and a 1.5 year ago, we started dating. Long distance for us was 10.5 hours and that got old very quickly lol. Six months after we started dating, i moved to live with him. And now we are engaged and planning a wedding for 2019!

We went to the same high school but he was 2 years behind me. We started dating In July before I left for college 6 hrs away and everyone warned him not to wait around for me since my life would be changing a lot. We lasted 6 years between my first two years of college, the two we were both gone and the 2 he was away after I had graduated. I transferred a bit closer to home for school so we were only 2 hrs apart for most of those six years but it didn't make it much easier. We worked hard to keep communication open and spend as much time together as we could. We will be married in May just shy of our 8 year anniversary

Another military story here! We met May 2014 at a rock festival that was local to me but about 4.5 hours from him where he was stationed. Probably about a month after we decided to pursue something with each other, he told me he was deploying to Okinawa for 7 months in a couple months (he was hesitant to tell me in case it deterred me lol even though I would've loved the early warning). So before he deployed we really didn't know each other. We'd constantly drive back and forth to each other the 4.5 hours every weekend. 3 years later and two deployments down, he moved in with me when he finished his 4 years with the Marines and we'll be getting married just over 5 years of our being together.

We met in college our senior year, so after graduation and poor luck finding a job, I lived 2.5 hours away (He lived in The city so there was no way to avoid 95 or other corridors unfortunately). The major problem was that I-95 separated us. If you've ever traveled through DC and Northern, VA, it can be an absolute nightmare and the trips could sometimes be up to 4-5+ hours. Lots a video games and FaceTime kept up our communication. We tried to alternate seeing each other every two weeks, but i preferred to go up to him because he lived in an apartment and i lived with my parents. Anyways, after I was in a really bad car accident, we decided we didn't want to be apart anymore and after 2 years of long distance we finally moved in together.

A month after DH and I met he took a job 5 hours away. We were long distance for 2.5 years. It was definitely not easy but we saw each other at least once a month, usually two times per month. I think starting our relationship long distance helped us get to know each other a lot better than if we were living in the same city. DH is not the best communicator so it helped that most of our relationship was over the phone in the beginning. It really forced us to talk to each other about any and everything thing as a way to "spend time together." I think if we had lived in the same city we would have spent most of our time together in a group with our friends and not one on one. Our relationship would have developed much slower I think. After 2.5 years, DH moved back to our home city and we moved in together.

DH and I met in high school, but didn't start dating until 2nd year college. We were long distance for three years (him in CA, me in MA), and saw each other in the summers and during winter holidays. I'm thankful we did it, and I believe it was integral to the development of our relationship.

Not me, but another college friend had an LDR with an exchange student from the UK. They were married this past year as well, and she has moved to the UK to join her husband. Some of the loveliest people I know, and I am beyond glad they worked out.

FH and I met whilst I was on a study abroad program in the states. Since then I had to move back to the UK where I finished school. We have been long distance for over two years now but this year went on a six month trip together before we settle down! Once the paperwork is all sorted I'll be moving to the states. Fingers crossed that should be around easter!

I met my H when we both worked together in Florida. We were friends and then I moved back up to NY. Shortly after that we decided we wanted to date so we did the long distance thing for a little over a year. Then he moved up here about a month after we got engaged. So glad we gave it a shot.

FH and I met in 2001 on a cruise ship. We were both sophmores in high school at the time. He lived in Texas, I lived in California. We stayed in contact over the years and talked off and on. Always communicated at milestones. We started dating in November 2014, he moved February 2015, and we got engaged July 2016.