How I did it: There were a few crucial things that we did in order to stay together across 4 time zones for 2 years.  First, we had complete trust in each other and never doubted that we loved each other.  Second, we each had our own jobs and friends that kept us busy and happy on our own.  Third, we had expectations about how often we would communicate (every day) and had a "light at the end of the tunnel" that we were pushing for.  We knew that at the end of the two years our commitments that had been keeping us far away from each other would end and that we could make decisions to be closer at that point.

Lessons & tips: Have faith.  My relationship is so much stronger now than it was when we started being long distance, because we both had a chance to live without being tied at the hip to eachother.  We discovered that even after 2 years of doing different things and meeting new people, we still loved each other just as much.  Less than two weeks after I moved out to be with him, he proposed!

Dec 31, 2009, 10:20AM PST | 0 comments | 5 cheers