This troper's girlfriend moved from the next state to across the country (and then here, but it was a long 10 months).

A country? Don't make me laugh. Try an ocean and six time zones.

Eleven. (This relationship ended a few years ago.) At the time I calculated that the distance as the crow flies between us was pretty close to 9/10 the maximum distance between any two places on the planet.

"Only" time timezones, but either way it's two continents and an ocean, or one continent and two oceans. Me: Madagascar. Him: California. Time together: 3 years and 2 months as of August 2010. Anywhere farther from me and he'd be living in the Pacific Ocean. It definitely doesn't help that neither of our countries are really friendly to gay immigrants...

Wow, you guys had it easy. Do you have any idea how hard it is to maintain a relationship with someone on the asteroid belt? I thought not.

....and you ''do''?

I left my heart in parallel-universe San Francisco. Beat that.

This troper's best friend has never lived less than two and a half hours away. Thank god for the internet.

This troper has been dating the most wonderful boy on the planet for two years. He lives five hundred miles away, and I've never met him in person. I'm 16, he's 15. It ''will'' work, god dammit.

He '''says''' he's 15. So 45 at least and so ugly even his mother couldn't love him. :P

This actually brings up the problem of all long-distance relationships. Is it really 'dating', per se, if you've never been anywhere together?

My fiancee isn't that far away, only 200 miles, but we're both too broke to travel often so I only see her once every 3 or 4 months.

This troper lives in Venezuela. His boyfriend lives in the USA. They both have been dating for almost two years now, and despite not having personally met, they have a rather stable relationship (though that is helped by the internet, some webcams and Skype) and so far it has been working for them.

This troper has an internet friend who she's never met in real life who's in a relationship with a girl he's never met in real life. Conversations between us look really confusing if you don't already know what we're talking about.

This troper was in a relationship entirely over the internet with a girl in Minnesota, he himself dwelling in the UK. I'm fifteen, she's fourteen and I had successfully reached the point where I decided that I was going to drag the relationship out as it was for three years until I was finished with college, at which point I would GTFO the country and move to the US to study at uni. Entirely for the purpose of being with her. I was convinced that we could make it work, but... she wasn't. She ditched me the moment she got asked out in real life. Fun.

This Troper lives in PA and has a boyfriend in North Carolina

This Troper's ex lived in Maryland, while she lived in Sydney, Australia. Despite all our attempts to make it work, the relationship was doomed to fail.

This troper moves so often that he doesn't even try to have relationships, fearing this trope will make them fail

This (Californian) troper's girlfriend lives in Long Island and we've been together for four years and counting. Surprisingly, everyone who we've explained our relationship to has been understanding and supportive (to the point of our relationship having it's own fan club).

This Troper is Australian, and his girlfriend lives in the US. It'll probably be another year or two before we can meet in person, but we're both hellbent on making it work.

Me: America. Girlfriend: England. Time together: 4 years. We're happy togeter, and we've been back and forth between the countries. We're living proof, along with nearly everyone on this page, we can all make it work

This troper's _person who hates using the word girlfriend_ have not met once IRL. We live on opposite sides of the country.

Compounding the confusion is that we're both into gender-bender: While this troper would be fine spending time with her regardless of our respective genders, she would much rather have herself as a cute bishie-esque guy with me as a nerdish meganekko. :P Oh, and she has trouble with the idea of giving anyone she knows 'preference' in terms of time-spent/emotional connections and whatnot . . . She hates the idea of exclusivity, would prefer it if we were both genderswapped, lives across the country (and can't really leave because of her ill parents who she helps care for,) . . . Something is obviously wrong with me, but I'm far too enamored to admit it.

This Brazilian troper met two girls with boyfriends in different states: one was 538km (334.3 miles). Another is 1712 km (1.063 miles)! (just for clearing: both live, like me, in Minas Gerais. The former had a relationship in Espírito Santo, the latter in Rio Grande do Sul. Handy map)

This Troper hooked up with his girlfriend about three days before leaving college due to horrible grades, after knowing each other for five months and about two weeks of romantic development. Due to my restarting college and her continuing classes, the fact that we live on opposite sides of Washington state, and her insane mother, we get to see each other, on average, four days every two months. We passed the one-year mark a couple of months back and are still going strong.

Due to being one of the administrators at a game-related Internet forum that has run for several years, and to being from Australia, which has a tiny amount of influence on the 'Net, this troper has had no less than seven Long Distance Relationships. Despite great determination to wait it out and meet each time, the other half broke it off from the stress, often long before actually meeting. Every single time. After this many failures, the troper has given up on these to instead seek "real life" relationships. Unfortunately, however, due to being a writer, he's got more charisma in writing than in person.

This troper is deliberately invoking this trope. Having done the long distance thing - and had it implode spectacularly - she decided, "never again" - at least not unless we've got some time together already. So when she met a really wonderful guy on the internet and he asked to meet only a few weeks before she was to spend the summer in Montana - 1500+ miles away - she said, "Yes, but not now." We've been exchanging emails and chatting on AIM. It's working great so far.

This troper's girlfriend lives in the states and she in Canada, and the two have never met IRL. We fight a GENEROUS amount, mostly about her not keeping in touch enough and me looking at other girls too much, but both of those things are pretty much the fault of the trope (having just come out to, well, myself, girls are an aspect of life I can't very well ignore). At the core though she's my favourite part of life and I'm holding out for a visit this summer--although we already have conversations about all the cute things we'd do with each other if she ever came up, and those are honestly enough to last me. Besides, her mom doesn't know, so even if we could be together we'd have to put a plug in the PDA.

My friend was in one recently, but he turned out to be a weirdo in real life

...less extreme example coming through. This troper's boyfriend is three hours away, though with gas prices, schedule conflicts and whathaveyou, it can sometimes feel like he's in another province.

An example likely to backfire on myself,I have an open relationship (with a significantly older man) across the nation.I plan on moving to his locale eventually ...if he's not taken first

This Troper lives in Manitoba. Her boyfriend lives in Virginia. They have not met in real life yet, though that is upcoming, and most people seem to believe that they are just meeting for sex. Err. No.

This troper is in a relationship that is entirely over the internet. Me: Melbourne, Australia. Him: Florida, USA. I love him with all my heart but YE GODS do I wish I was rich. (For plane tickets and such.)

I met a gal in college when I was a sophomore. We lived on either side of the US at that time, but stuck with the relationship through summer and winter breaks, her study abroad program in England, and her teaching in Austria for most of a year. Our 8-year wedding anniversary is next month. :)

Boifriend lives in South Dakota, Troper lives in NY. We get to see each other every summer, but really, for a troper with abandonment issues... Once a week isn't within throwing distance of enough.

This troper, also from South Dakota (who knows the above troper's boifriend in real life, unless something is seriously creepy-coincidental), has his boyfriend in New Mexico. He has (only so slightly) jokingly suggested that he merge South Dakota, New York, New Mexico, and the states a few of his best friends/said friends' significant others into one state, and air-lift everyone in.

In a married example of this trope, this troper's grandfather spent several years stationed with the American Air Force in The Philippines, while my grandmother stayed in Tennessee raising my mother. They were HappilyMarried until she was afflicted with late-stage dementia about two years ago, and even now, he refuses to put her in a nursing home.

Hoo boy! This troper and her husband are in a Long Distance Relationship due to the stupid economy. Both of us ended up getting job offers in the same week on opposite ends of the country. It was either this or one of us would never work again, but it still stinks.

I live in America, and my boyfriend's in Japan. People think it's weird but I don't care, I love the hell out of him.

Raekuul from Cincinnati is currently in a LDR with a beautiful woman from Rosario, Argentina.

I'm a girl from Portugal, she's from North Carolina, USA. And she's literally perfect for me. I'll wait as long as she still likes me, even if it takes forever.

This troper met his girlfriend on a summer internship in San Diego - two weeks before he had to go back to college in Michigan. We're still keeping things going, though, thanks to webcams, Google Talk, and cell phones. Three time zones' difference makes things tricky, but not impossible, considering I stay up and get up late anyway. Fortunately, I'll get to see her again for sure this summer... Can't wait!

This troper lives in Vancouver, Canada. My girlfriend lives in Massachusetts. If it weren't for these damn age limitations on border crossings and driving (not to mention the money and school factors) I would be there without a doubt. Thank you, Internet, for helping me find this wonderful girl.

My ex-boyfriend and I lived four timezones away from each other. To make it worse, there was a certain three-year age difference which ensured it would be years before we got to meet each other in real life. It was complicated. But neither of these were the reason we broke up, well over a year after we started dating.

This troper's best friend is engaged following one of these. This troper introduced the two to each other via the glorious internet, and then they met up, it was all so wonderful.

This troper will have no-one but him, yet we live on opposite ends of the US. However, he intends to save up money for plane tickets so my mom and I can come over and I can attend his prom(while mom hopefully gets acquainted with his parents so she might be willing to let me go alone next time).

Had a previous relationship was a time zone and four states distant...about 3 years and two meets later, we had a few compatibility issues, and well, there's a reason it's a previous relationship. Still...they were good times.

This troper's life was saved by a man met in a chatroom for a webcomic about drama cats. We were planning on living together before that, but it brought about a realization of how deep the love between us goes.

Ths Troper's friend met her boyfriend online on Wizard101 (which is actually a pretty good game) of all places. They started out as friends, but eventually started dating. They've been together for at least a year now, and they're very close considering they've never met in real life (we live in Indiana, but he's in Pennsylvania). They talk on the phone every night, text a lot, video chat, get on Wizard together...

This troper fell in love with a woman I met in a roleplayers' chatroom. We I.M.ed and texted daily and spoke on the phone at least once a week for the better part of a year and made plans to meet during her Winter Break. Sadly, it never happened as she was diagnosed with bone cancer and was forced to move back in with her parents while she was going through chemotherapy. She tried to get me to leave her then but I refused to abandon her in her time of need. The next few years, I tried to weather the communication difficulties caused by her parents only having dial-up Internet (in 2007!), their only having one phone line, Dad having a job that required he be on-call 24-7 (which meant no "talking cute" for hours at a time) and them living in the one place in America my cell-phone provider didn't have coverage denying me the power to get her a phone on my plan. I couldn't go visit her because at the time I was working a minimum wage job with no benefits and no vacation time. Eventually, after nearly five years together, I did break up with her as I realized the bright, vibrant woman with big plans for the future I'd fallen for had died and been replaced by an apathetic couch potato who couldn't be arsed to send me an IM letting me know she was still alive more than once a month.

Oh God.

For two people living in adjacent provinces, this shouldn't be the case. But since he's seventeen and in college and in a town that I will never be allowed to set foot in because of its dangerous reputation, while I'm fifteen and in high school and not even allowed to be in a relationship yet, it might as well be.

This Venezuelan troper has been in Belgium for the past ten months as an exchange student. Two months ago, she started dating her current, Belgian, girlfriend. She (the troper) goes back home in two weeks. Cue depressing Snow Patrol music.

Me: Washington. Her: California. Planning to meet in August of 2011. We're very happy with each other and very much in love. Biggest Problem: Unsupportive Parents. FML

This troper lives in Missouri and his girlfriend lives in California. This is our second time being in a relationship (I was a high school freshman the first time [first time lasted 7 months, by the way] now graduated). She's wanting to focus on school and me, being the nice guy that I am, is going along with it. In any case, we're planning on meeting next year after she graduates. And seeing that she'd rather not have me go to Cali, I'll fly her out here to Missouri. It'll be great. And I'm expecting sex. Lots and lots of sex...