Long Distance Relationships
I went to high school with my now boyfriend. Back then we were just friends and definitely nothing more. Bu the summer going into college we started to like each other. We were leaving in a few months though to different schools (about 3 hours apart) and it didn't seem like we should be starting anything then so we kind of just said that we would stay in touch and went our separate ways.
But then a month or so later (after several calls, text messages and online chats) I went to visit him on my birthday because one of my best friends also goes to school with him and I wanted to spend it with the people I was close to and then a few months after that he surprised me with a visit to my school and it was so great because I was sick and he just showed up with a smile on his face and I definitely couldn't have asked for more. When we were home for Christmas break that year we decided that we may as well give our relationship a shot. Now, as juniors we are still together and while the distance sucks, there is no one I would rather be with, so we make it work.
As a surprise I got him this video conferencing equipment to hook up to his computer so that we could be video conferencing while we weren't together. It was so great because while it was only 3 hours away, we both have lives at school and didn't want to miss out on a lot of time with our friends and events. So when we couldn't visit and see each other in person, we did the next best thing and saw each other on the computer. It really is a cool thing and although we aren't actually together it allows us to be in each other's lives in a way that we couldn't before.
I don't know if I would suggest a long distance relationship to anyone, because it is really hard to do. But I also don't think I would discourage it. I thin that if you care about someone so much that you want to make it work over a long distance, then it is definitely worth trying and there are so many ways that we have now that can help to make it happen.