survive my long distance relationship

But I’m not going to check this off as done quite yet.

Now we gotta wait for me to find a job in Chicago so I can move there with him…

Gotta get the visa first..

He’s packing right now!

He handed in his thesis last week and is coming home for good on Thursday.

I am over the moon with joy!

April 29th! Then he’s coming home to me! We will survive it!

I’m so scared this is the breaking point.

My boyfriend was just offered a job in Chicago right out of university. I live in Toronto, he lives in Ottawa right now. We’ve been 5 hours apart for a year. We’ve been together for almost 3. I work in an industry where there are lots of layoffs. There’s no way someone in Chicago who is laying off their workers would give a job to some Canadian like me…

Chicago is 8 hours away from Toronto. I don’t want to hold him back from a great job opportunity in a bad economy…

But I’d have to quit my job and go to a strange city where I know no one and will be bored/poor/lonely when he’s at work.

I don’t want to hold him back…

but I can’t go to a place where I would have nothing.

I dont’ know what to do

I’m crying because I’m afraid of the worst. He doesn’t want to leave me and doesn’t want me to give up everything I have, but he doesn’t want to give up his opportuity either.

I don’t want to be the one who makes him give up everything, but I dont’ want him to leave me either. We’ve been apart for so long and our hearts both ache.

He’s almost done his thesis in a town 5 hours away. He can’t leave until he finishes. March is his deadline.

After almost a year, the end is almost here! I need to have faith. I know he can do it. It’ll mean he has to write an average of 100 pages a day..but honestly, this sounds crazy, but he’s done crazier hard work before. This guy is a superhero!

I know he can do it. I need you guys to hope he can too! Only then can he come back to me!

every time he leaves. My heart sinks with pain. Even with the 7 hours we talked on Saturday, it hurts to hang up.

I’m getting close to the breaking point. I feel like it’s what’s making me so depressed lately. I don’t know how to fix it. I see all my friends getting married and him so far away. I just want him to be near me too.