The Long Distance Relationship Society Advice Centre

Rants are good sometimes

For starters you're right, there's no reason it can't work, especially if you'll be 2 hours away max. What does he do? I wouldn't normally suggest that living in the same place for uni was such a good idea, but could he look into getting a job nearer you, if he's that worried? He's right - you can't know what'll happen, but LDRs do work

Ahh, that sucks, hope everything works out mate

Well would you believe it, after I made that topic, I went to the shop and I randomly met an Italian girl..I had my flight booked to come home the next day..but ended up spending the next 3 days with her, going out with her friends, meeting her parents, sleeping by the beach, in general having a really cool few days, helped take my mind of things

We had some holiday romance... which was also very welcome! Only problem now is to stop myself getting in another LDR lol! Nah it was just a bit of fun although she's planning to come to London in September so will see how it goes then!

She definitely put a smile on my face thought after all the **** with my now ex...

Hey to everyone in the thread,
Need to keep myself occupied. Going crazy here. LDR just got abit worse, he just went to Japan for 3 weeks and heading back to see his family in Asia and won't be back till mid Sept. I guess its the non-communication for three weeks part which is making me down . Just hopes he texts me when he arrives later today.
Meanwhile here in UK, still unemployed, sending and sent numerous applications, there are just no jobs for what I'm looking.
Soo..guess feeling down......... need to do stuff.. even worse is I have few friends..
rant over

Don't worry I haven't got ANYTHING exciting to do except work and read until September, when I fly over again my one best friend is away right now, one of my sisters is away until August, the other leaves for a week tomorrow, my mum decided the other day that she doesn't want anything else to do with me, so I haven't got much company either Luckily my boyfriend's kind of around for now (he's drinking and xBoxing with a friend right now, been slightly lonely this evening) but he goes on holiday in August - but then at least my sisters are back. I can understand the non-communication thing, I've had that all year due to exams and things, his phone contract recently ran out so no emails throughout the day if he's out, and now even though he's generally at home and can check his emails, I have no phone >.< There's only so much time I can spend hunched over this ancient laptop that I can only use sitting on the living room floor because of its inability to connect to WiFi. I have only just come back from seeing him though, and it's seven weeks until I see him again- how long has it been for you? Can he not email you?

Thanks for the reply, it's good that you have work, you can kind of be out and about 7 weeks is a long timee How far are you frm each other, can you not see sooner?
Wel lthe deal is, we are normally LDR in UK anyway - I'm 2 hours from London hes in London, but we usually talk everyday . He went to Japan yesterday, I asked him to text me I'm not sure if his phone network would work over there... so i'm hoping he could email me but then I'm not sure if he'll have wifi at the hotel. I guess we won't be communicating if that's the case until 3 weeks time where hes back with his family in Asia since he has internet there lol. But hes not properly back till mid september - I hope to have got a job and moved to London by then - thats the plan. Sigh. I need a job or soemthing at least for now!! I am lucky that I am living at home at the moment so I am in the company of my parents, but I guess 3 weeks non communication is the longesttt we've had. Sorry long postttt.

Just found this thread. I've been with my boyfriend for 9 months, we met at uni and now we have to spend 2 and a half months apart as we've both moved home for the summer. I'm really missing him as I'm used to seeing him everyday and we live over 3 hours away from each other. I know it's not really that long to spend apart but it feels like so much longer. Not quite sure what to do with myself tbh

I'm in the same boat as you. My boyfriend was my flatmate (yeah, we got a lot of stick for it to begin with) so I've lived with him from Day 1 essentially! Saw him everyday, cooked dinner everyday with him and fell asleep and woke up next to him everyday. He's in London and I'm in Southampton for the term holidays. It's really weird at the moment. Feel like I'm missing a limb without him being here.

Wow this sounds so similar to my situation. I lived in the same flat as my boyfriend too, we basically lived together for 9 months, so it's really weird not to have that now.