hi guys, so glad i found this.
basically, i was in an ldr with someone for almost 2 years in my first years of uni, went into it literally 2 weeks after we started seeing eachother properly - in hindsight it didnt work out because our relationship was pretty crap in general, and shouldnt have lasted as long as it did. i was pretty happy at the time though, enjoying the fact that i have a lot of time for schoolwork and that we get an intense week together every 5-6 weeks, so i had time for everything.
when we broke up, i was alone for about 2 years - all until this year when i met the best guy ever. we scouted eachother out in the first two weeks of my new uni and had been inseparable ever since, we basically lived together for the 10 months we had together. he is from a different continent, and tried to find a job here, but having failed, he took up a position back home and is starting soon. he was very adamant he did not want an ldr, not for anyone ever, and although he said i was perfect for him and hed probably never meet anyone he was as compatible with as me, he said he couldnt do it because wed end up living two separate lives and all the closeness that made our relationship so special in the first place would be gone. when i went over to see him in his native country, met all his friends and family, he ended up changing his mind, telling me how special i am, how hes so glad i convinced him and how we should give it a go and see where it takes us.
the catch is im going into a professional quaification and then a job, in which in total i need to spend the next 4 years (there is no backing out - im being sponsored by a company and would have to repay 50k should i quit at any time!). i know he wants to live in his native country in the long run, but is being very confusing about whether he would ever consider moving here in the interim (perhaps he doesnt even know himself yet, as he hasnt really started his job yet!). because he was so reluctant to go into the ldr in the first place, im so apprehensive he will change his mind - we wont be seeing eachother for 3 months now, and then i will visit every 1.5-2 months for roughly 2-3 weeks at a time (plus the summer) as im more flexible studying. im so scared he will conclude that all his reservations were founded, and dont want to scare him away with my neediness by talking to him about whether he would even consider moving to the uk before the 4 year mark (when i can move there). he could do that in 2 years (during which time im still at school and can fly over regularly - after that i start work and things will get trickier), provided he gets a job and after hes paid back all his tuition loans. all is going well i think - we skype every other day and seem to get on just fine without eachother in the interim, but knowing how reluctant he always is to talk about the future, and how he only 'converted' to wanting the ldr recently, im really scared of scaring him away with Big Questions. that said, he also said he sees the time apart as a good test of whether wed want to be with eachother 'forever' thereafter. even though i was advocating the ldr all this time, and even though i honestly think he might be The One, im just worried its too long - and would be completely destroyed if he ever came to that conclusion.
any help in dealing with this sort of early day anxiety?
advice from anyone with a transatlantic ldr (or at least spanning maaaany airmiles) would be greatly appreciated to get my head in order!