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How to Survive a Long Distance Relationship

Long-distance relationships suck. I get it. All three of my significant relationships have involved long distance in some way. As a young man who was terrified of any sort of commitment, I found that I could only allow myself to fall for a girl if she was at least miles away. The second time, we both agreed that our lives were taking us to different parts of the world and we were probably better off letting it go —we then struggled to, you know, actually let go for another year, and it sucked. The third time, and perhaps because we had both done this before, we immediately made plans to end the distance as soon as possible six months , and then made the appropriate sacrifices to do so. One of the things that kill long-distance relationships is the constant underlying uncertainty of everything.

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Two years ago, I was drinking a margarita on a rooftop bar in Manhattan when I met a man from London. When I asked how they met, they taught me something important: starting a relationship long-distance is possible. Here's their story: He searched for his highest match on OkCupid, and she happened to be on the other side of the world. But her profile made her sound so awesome, he couldn't resist messaging her. Once they hit it off online and other the phone, they started visiting each other.

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How to Start a Real Relationship Online

Coming off of what many would consider to be a pretty excessive online-dating binge sorry, not sorry , you could only imagine my surprise when I managed to stumble upon a man in real life. And while neither of us expected anything to come of a casual date — he was visiting the States from Berlin and I was enjoying my first summer of freedom after wrapping up undergrad — life really does happen while you're busy making other plans. In hindsight, there are definitely some things I wish I had fully understood before starting a long-distance relationship. Every LDR starts a little bit differently. For us, it was two weeks of spending almost every day together under the pretense of me "showing him around," culminating in an emotional last day in Coney Island.

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