do long distance relationship really work?

Nope.A long time ago I was mutally attracted to a guy who lived in another country. We met during one of his visits here, we hit it off and deceided to see if we could make it work, with him making interval trips from his country to mine. He's a consultant who comes to my country quite often during each year and would often time spend 3 weeks @ the most each time he visits. I couldn't travel because I need a visa to visit his country, which is a pretty difficult thing to acquire in my country. Anyway to make a long story short, it jus couldn't work no matter how hard we tried, he eventually married someone else. We still communicate with each other via the telephone, actually he moreso than me, from the time he hits the ground in my country he calls me and lets me know he's here, but with him being married now I don't encourage any kind of socialising between us i.e we don't go out for movies,dinner nothing. I respect his marriage. So I would have to say NO. For two people to be in a lasting long distance relationship, it would take some serious committement and understanding between the parties.

Yes, I long distance relationship do work. It's not easy but it actually works. You just have to exert extra effort to make it work.

Hi, For me.. Nope it doesn't work.. because for me presence is very important in any relationship. but some says that long distance relationship offers more patience, trust to your partner. But I guess I am not the type of person who can endure that thing, I always wanted to that my partner is on my side.

I have been in two long distanse relationships. The first one didn't work out, and we broke up after one year. The second long distanse relationship went well. I lived in the north of Denmark and he lived in another part of the country. We had a long distanse relationship for a year and a half, I was busy with my studies and he was very busy with work, so we hardly ever saw eachother, but our relationship still survived. I was very happy when I was finally able to move from my town to his town. While we had a long distanse relationship we weren't able to meet in person, so we found other ways to keep the relationship alive like long phoencalls, letters, drawings and parcels with small gifts.

I am having a long distance relationship currently. It will work if we make it work.

Long distance relationship can work -BOTH- sides put their sincere efforts into trying to make it work. However it is usually very hard to maintain a long distance relationship because there are just so many factors against it such as people changing over time and the loneliness of not being with someone. In order for it to work, there must be some kind of commitment and sacrifices that both people must be willing to make.

I've only heard a few working out.Sometimes,the physical presence of your partner can't be replaced.I agree with you that it's also a matter of trust but expect that the risk of being tempted to have another relationship as the couples are far from each other & not knowing what each other does behind their backs.

I believe that a long distance relationship can work as long as the care and love and commitment are there. Every relationship worth having takes nurturing and efforty/ Of we are not willing to do that than the distance in miles won't matter if they are few or far. It maky take a bit more effort to keep a long distance relationship secure, but I still believe that it can be done.

No, I don't think so. It depends upon your partners or friends.

I believe it will work if you have the perseverance to make things work. I know it is easier said but if you are willing to sacrifice then it will.

what important is 'TRUST'. I think its very important in distance relationship. When you're not trust to your partner so it will damaged your relationship.I think if you can't fully trust your partner its not work..

For me its a yes, long distance relationships do really work. Because i have seen so many long distance relationships that really work, couples and even lovers,and praise GOD that they made it. But sad to say that there are some long distance relationship had been wasted. That's because a relationship, long distance or not could only work if this two elements is present and that is LOVE and TRUST.Without this two it is too hard to make a relationship to last. A relationship is compose of three party's to make it work even a long distance relationship needs to have this party's too. 1st and second party are the persons involve in that relationships, they must have the two elements, LOVE and TRUST to each other.And third party that i mentioned is GOD. If they put GOD in the center of there relationship even if it is a long distance relationship,GOD will always protect their relationship,and keep them away from any situation that may affect their relationship.Because GOD is love, so if they put GOD in the center, they put LOVE in the center of their relationship, and trust will act like an unbreakable shelled of their relationship,even if they are far from each other.

It's depend actually on the couple I think. When they can communicate with each other everyday, can to be honest and loyal I believe that LDR gonna worked..., :D

relationships are hard to work out long distance a lot of people do it all the time. the men and women fighting for us have their partners back here in the united states and they are doing long distance. you have to trust and believe your partner.

I have seen a few that after worked but as far as me being in one , Mine never have worked out. So I dont think it does very often. There are too many tempations out there and you are too far away to do anything about it.

I think it depends on the duration of the separation. I think it could maybe work for 6 months and maybe as long as a year and then it would be very difficult. I only really knew 1 couple who had a long distance relationship. They had dated for years and then were separated for 2 years. At the end of he 2 years they were together again but each had changed while they were away and they could not sustain the relationship.

i think it was really depend on both of the couple...

At this moment it works for me. I like to be alone and do what I like. I am married abroad and my husband is living in his own country (Africa). Although he says he misses me I know to him it's more important to be married so he belongs to the group and is somebody as the fact I am not there every day. And if I am there he likes to be with his friends/co-workers as well. To be honest I never think of the fact if he is cheating, my life is way too busy with kids and all the things I have to do, arrange etc. So if this long distance relationship does work I can only tell you if it's end or just before he or I is dying. BTW I do think it all depends too on what ideas you have about a relationship.

Well, I failed in my first long distance relationship. Then when my last boyfriend returned to his country, I thought I could manage the relationship, but then it failed too. I don't know how or why, but I still can believe that ling distance relationship can really work out. However, it depends on the two people. Are they really ready for the longing? Can they trust each other? Because I think long distance relationship needs more than just trust. It also needs a strong commitment between the two.

No,done that got the T-shirt. Well didn't work for me maybe some people. Communication and the want for each other made it impossible to live with, I wasn't prepared to move to a different counrty neither was he, so we ended it...lol Too much hard work! I wanted to go to cinema each week end or picnicks with him when I wanted...but distance made it very impossible.