Comments on: How Long Distance Relationships Have Influenced My Happiness (Personal Study)

By: Hugo Huijer

Hugo Huijer — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:34:13 +0000

In reply to Tony. Thanks for sharing, Tony! I wish you all the best in your LDR and hope you're able to move together soon!

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:22:13 +0000

Hey
Thank you for sharing your story, I found it very interesting.
I have been in a n LDR for over 18 months. I live in Australia and my partner on the East Coast of USA, so its a day of flying to see each other. I have been over to spend time with her four times including right now. I’m fortunate to have flexibility in my work so I can spend tow months here this time. We talk everyday via messenger sometimes twice usually at least an hour. We believe communication is key. We both live busy lives outside our relationship so we have happiness by ourselves, but we are delicately happy with each other. Having both been married before and over 50 years of age, we have had some relationship experience and have spent a lot of time talking about our happiness and our dislikes, and found our compatibility through that. We are planning for us to be together in the long term so we have an end date, as this would be very hard to maintain for a long period of time, especially when you feel strongly for each other

By: Admin

Admin — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:03:40 +0000

In reply to Valentin B.

Thank you, Valentin, for the nice words. I’m sorry that the long-distance eventually contributed to the end of your relationship. These LDR’s suck, I don’t know how else to put it.

You’re right in that it does feel like some sort of test that we passed. And it has indeed made us stronger! 🙂

By: Valentin B

Valentin B — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:31:28 +0000

Thank you for sharing your story. Interesting and inspiring. I have lots of appreciation for you and your relationship how it lasted through all of these long periods. I’ve been through one LDR as well and unfortunatelly ended after less than one year. Of course other circumstances but the principles are the same. I know what it takes. I am happy for you that your relationship survived and I am sure has made you stronger and have trust in each other even more. It was a taugh test you passed.

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 06:57:37 +0000

In reply to Edel.

Hey Edel, thank you for stopping by and leaving your input! 🙂

I think it was a good thing that we were already dating for >2 years when the Australia LDR came along. If that one was our first, it would have probably not ended well. I might eventually be able to get my girlfriend to comment on this article, haha.

If I could change anything… I think it would be my own anxiety and trust issuess. I had several freakouts (of which I’m not proud) that were purely based on my own lack of confidence. This did not have a positive influence on the relationship, and it was totally unnecessary.

By: Edel

Edel — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:28:15 +0000

I find this very fascinating. I think a factor in why she seemed to fare better than you was because she had already been through it twice already. This was your first time experiencing it. Also, your relationship was more established vs the first time you entered into a LDR which was only a couple months into your relationship. I’d be interested to hear her thoughts on the first couple of LDR phases.

If you could change anything during that last LDR, what would you do?