long distance relationships- can it work?

Helllo JamieRose , my first b/f and I were in a long distance relationship when he moved 250 miles away to attend college. By the fifth month he was ready to start dating others who were closer to where he was living. I was fine with keeping the relationship going even though it was long distance but he was away from home and needed to have his own experiences. It hurt for him to break it off with me but I decided I wanted to keep him as a friend so I let go without any drama. I wrote to him and he answered my letters back. Eventually I started to date someone else but before I even considered dating this other guy I asked for his opinion of the new guy that wanted to date me. Not that I needed my ex-b/f's permission I wanted to know if I should even consider dating this new guy because the new guy was the guy my best friend had a thing for. I had spoken to my best friend and told her if she had any problem with me dating the guy she had a thing for I would not date the new guy.She told me she had no shot of even dating him so she said for me to go for it. It took me about a month of her convincing me to see what he was like but eventually I started dating my next b/f. To make the long story shorter my first experience on long distance relationships did not work out for me through no fault of my own. Bcause of my first experience of long distance relationships I was nervous about how it would go with my current b/f. It has been nearly 3 months since I have been another long distance relationship. So far it has been going ok probably because I get to see him once a week. He usually gets to my apartment on monday evening and he then has to go back on thursday morning to go back to work again. I try to see it as I only dont see him for 3 days even though it is a little longer than 3 days. I see him for an hour thursday and won't see him personally again until monday late afternoon/early evening. My b/f knows I wasn't crazy about being in another long distane relationship again but so far it has been ok. My b/f put in for a transfer to another store closer to where I am at and a new store is opening up in August about 2 miles from my apartment. I just hope we can hold out until then.We do speak online every night after his broadcast so I get to see him a little.He calls my cell phone when he at work because I still have my old number, I am in the same calling area but it either takes 100 miles of driving time to drive around the puget sound or he can take the ferry. Taking the ferry it is about 27 miles. Yesterday I took him on the driving around the puget sound so he knows how to do it if he wants to drive instead of taking the ferry.But so far, so good. I'm keeping my finger crossed.

I was in one for a while. He lived in Norther California and me in Southern California. I had moved down here while we were broke up. Two years later I went up North for a visit and we got together. the long distance thing did not last very long at all and we ended up breaking up. Once of the main reasons was distance and schedules. We could not be together as much as we would have like to. I caused much tension and ended, especially when I came up with plenty of advanced notice and he had no time for me. I left and that was the end of it. If you think you might work out with a person in a long distance relationship, I suggest one of you move to the location where that person lives. You will have a better chance of making it work if it is the right person.

Well it happened to me a lot of times and they all didn't work out. Lots of reason really so i can't still say if it does work but i have heard of success stories too and i'm sure you'll be reading a lot of them from other members just before or after my response. I know everything failed but then i'm not closing my doors because falling in love doesn't really choose locations. I might even fall for you even if we're miles apart. I might even fall from a lady from Africa that's continents apart from me. We just really can't tell until we're in the situation. This type or relationship is basically the same as any other relationship. At least, that's how i treat it personally.

I haven't an experience like this.But one of my best friends did.She and her ex-bf were not in the same place because they choosed two different universities.Their relationship couldn't last long and they broke up at last.It was not because they didn't love each other,but because of the long distance.The long distance let them feel further in heart.So I don't think long distance relationship can work.