My Advice After Two Long Distance Relationships

I’m currently writing this from my girlfriend’s apartment in France. I have been in a long distance relationship with her for over six months now.

I also had another ‘LDR’ with an American girl, (I’m British, by the way), so I have a fair amount of experience with this and have decided to share my feelings on the subject with anyone who happens to read this.

I’m going to delve into some of the things I’ve learned over the course of my relationship, and discuss some of the commonly held misconceptions surrounding long distance relationships.

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Can a long distance relationship work?

People who tell you that a long distance relationship can never work are simply cynical fools. If there were stats on this sort of thing, I bet you’d discover that they work out just as often as a ‘normal’ relationship. Of course, you can’t maintain such distance for the entire relationship. However, more often than not, a year or two apart at the beginning of a relationship makes it that much stronger, and teaches you a lot about yourself and each other.

The practicality, or lack thereof, of a long distance relationship is what most people would point out when discussing the matter. I do think this is a good point in general. Compared to an average…