would you do long distance relationship?

LilElvis

3 years of only spending weekends together, 12 years owning our home, nearly 10 years married, 5 year old daughter. Celebrating 15 years together on Christmas Eve :j

We both knew from day 1 that we just "clicked", and 3 years of me trundling my case on the rail network at weekends was just what it took until we could buy our home and make the move to being a couple 7 days a week.

boliston

I think it would depend on mode of transport - I'd consider up to 2 hours on a train but would no way do a 2 hour car journey.

VfM4meplse

boliston wrote: »

I think it would depend on mode of transport - I'd consider up to 2 hours on a train but would no way do a 2 hour car journey.

Which is rather limiting, given that you live in the middle of nowhere

SailorSam

I think i agree with all the posters that suggested 50mls drive is something that can easily got round. But the same 50mls if neither of you drive starts to make it difficult.

Alikay

I married mine too - distance for most of the time was about 200 miles, but involved long separations for large distances when he went to the Falklands, Cyprus and Germany (ex military). We were good at letter writing, as mobiles and emails didn't exist then and it worked fine for us. We actually found it difficult to adjust to normal day-to-day being together when we married and I moved to join him, as we were so used to the feast-or-famine intensity of a long distance relationship.

LilElvis

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Which is rather limiting, given that you live in the middle of nowhere

I used to do 2 1/2 hours each way on the train, and then continued to do that 5 days a week as my daily commute once we bought a house.

My rail ticket was the cost of a reasonable mortgage :eek:

fierystormcloud

Define long distance please OP.

100 miles? 1000? 3000? 9000?

duchy

fierystormcloud wrote: »

Define long distance please OP.

100 miles? 1000? 3000? 9000?

They did in the OP
50 miles about an hour away.

fierystormcloud

duchy wrote: »

They did in the OP
50 miles about an hour away.

Thanks Duchy.

I should learn to read posts thoroughly haha

50 miles away? That's not long distance! :huh:

So yes, this would be fine with me.

Miró

SailorSam wrote: »

I think i agree with all the posters that suggested 50mls drive is something that can easily got round. But the same 50mls if neither of you drive starts to make it difficult.

And if the driver lives in a remote location and the non driver has to rely on public transport it can be a nightmare. I'm thinking if the people concerned are older yet would wish to support one another in case of illness/emergency or just for general support distance CAN be problematical.