CollegeLDR

College Long Distance Love Stories: (e-mail me your story and I will submit it)
A lot of times you will hear, "you are too young to be involved in a relationship" or you will hear, "you are in college, this is your prime time to party and meet others". Well, that does not mean love cannot work out or a relationship should not be. No one can judge when the right time for a relationship is for you, except for you! Stay true to yourself and stay strong!

I met my boyfriend in the 7th grade. He had a crush on me but I hated him. Eventually in the 8th grade I started talking to him and got to know him better. I ended up falling in love with him. We broke up quite a few times because we were so young but always ended up getting back together sooner or later. I am now in my frist year of cllege and moved 2 and a half hours away from home. I missed him so much that he ended up moving up here with me for a while. A few months ago he suprised me by proposing to me. That was the happiest day in my life. Well, yesterday he left to California to go to college. (I live in Florida) I miss him so much already and its only been a day. He will be up there for a year and a half. I am not sure how I am going to make it here without him because we have never been apart in the six years we have been together. I knew that it would be hard when he left- But I never have guessed it would be this hard. This is just the beginning and I realize it will be like this for a while. But I knowt his is true love. He is my sould mate and I could never love someone as much as I love him!!!!!!!
Chief-N-Soday 4-Life!!!! - SxyS1123

I recently moved home from college, I went to school in Ohio, but it was 10 hours away from my parents house in Virginia. After lots of thought I decided it was the best thing to do...moving home. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone here. My best guy friend from High School brought me to Virginia from Ohio about a month ago. We have been friends since our Sophmore year. Before we left for college, we made a pact that if neither of us was dating anyone by the time we graduated that we would get married by the time we were 25. I loved him to death, then as Mike and I started talking and hanging out more and more, we decided to try and make the long distance thing work, and we email each other at least twice a day and talk on the phone every night, and I miss him more than anything. The good new is, I realize he is the perfect guy for me and was right in front of me all along and I never realized it. But now we are getting through this together, and have plans to be married in 3 years!! And I just want to say that this site is an inspiration and great thing for everyone, and I can't wait to tell Michael about it!! Thank you so much ~ Sarah

Hi! I have been with my boyfriend for about 7 months. I have known him all through high school but I never liked him. Not even as a friend. I always was mean to him and he was to me too. Well last year we finally started getting along and he asked me to go to the prom with him. I said yes, but I had no intention of ever being with him. Oh well, he's totally worth it! We used to fight a lot but something changed in July and we haven't fought since. I'm a senior in high school in Ohio and he goes to college in Pennsylvania. He is a hour and a half away. Thats not too bad but it's still hard. I love him with all my heart and I hope we stay together forever. It may sound like puppy love but I don't think it is. I think we were meant to be. Thanks for setting up this web-site it really helped. Good luck to everyone!
-Stacy & Brian

Hey, my name is Jill and I live in Kentucky. Last year an incredible thing happened to me- I met the love of my life. People always say "you're too young to know what love is..." They might think I am, because I am only 15, but I know I am not. Anyway, here is my story.
Last year, I was a freshman in high school. My friends began to hang out with the seniors (so did I), and I started to meet new people. I dated around for a while, and there was no one that seemed to be what I wanted. Until I met Perry. We hd talked a few times, and met through a mutual friend. One day at a football game he told me that he was starting to like on of my friends, (me, going out with his best friend, told him to go for it). At the time I felt a little jealous, because Perry was a really sweet guy, and he didn't need someone like on of my friends- I thought he needed to be with someone like me. So months went by, and one day I asked him for a ride home, along with my friend Sara. We talked about the upcoming dance, and how Perry and I didn't have a date. Sara suggested Perry and I go together, but I didn't know him well, so I was like "no... I don't think so". (Actually, I said he was too short! But I was kidding!) So the days went by, and I thought about it, and decided it wasn't a bad idea. So one night I called him and asked him if he wanted to go "as friends". The days went on, and we began to talk. We talked about each other's dreams, and how we couldn't wait to get out of this town, and the past relationships we had been in that wre all terrible. The first week we started going out, I got out of his car and said "I love you". I don't even remember thinking about it, it just came out. I knew then that we were going ot be together for a long itme. As time went by, we went to the prom, we hung out with our friends, we did everything together- we still do. But, then, he graduated. He always wanted to go to the University of Kentucky, which is 3 hours away. I spent a lot of time crying over the fact that one day soon, he would leave. I've never loved anyone like this before. We are so perfect together, and I could never love anyone more. I couldn't live with the fact that the love of my life was going to leave. Over the summer we were joined at the hip. We went everywhere together, I even went on vacation with him. But, August rolled around, and I started school, and he got packed up, ready to go off to college. I thought it was going to be the hardest thing I'd ever had to face in my life, and it was, and still is. The first month and a half he was gone, I cried every night. I listened to people say we weren't going to make it, we wouldn't last....but they were wrong. We are ment to be together. He is my soulmate, and I know for a fact, because I have never been with anyone else who made me feel the way he does. He is so special to me. People ask me if I could change the fact that he's gone, but, I wouldn't change it for the world. He wants to do what he wants to do, and I want him to. Missing him just makes me realize how much I love him. I just wanted to tell everyone who is in a Long Distance Relationship, not to give up. Don't believe what people say, you'll start to believe them. So many people have told me that we wont make it, that it wont last, and we will break up and forever be heartbroken. But who are they to judge the love that we have inside, shared between our two hearts and our two hearts only? Just remember to listen to what you think is right. There's always going to be people that try to change your mind about stuff that you do. DON'T LET THEM! Trust me, if I listened to all the people that said we wouldn't make it, then I wouldn't be with Perry now- but I didn't listen, and we've been together for 10 wonderful months now. Whoever you are, what ever you do, always follow your heart, because it is the only one that truly knows what you want, and what is truly right for you.

I met boyfriend Brian through my best friend at college. She told me one day that she thought I would be perfect with her friend from home. She thought we had a lot in common and she thought we would hit it off.
Her exact words were "Vanessa, sometimes when I talk to you, it reminds me exactly of something he would say." Brian goes to school in Potsdam, NY which is about 3 and a half hours from where I got to school in Rochester, NY. I thought she was crazy but she wanted me to IM Brian. I said no because I thought it was a crazy idea but I said that she could have him IM me if he wanted. He did and we totally hit it off. We talked over the computer for about three weeks and then gradually started talking on the phone. Shortly after that, I drove to Potsdam (3 and a half hours to meet a guy that I'd never met but had fallen in love with) and we spent the most exciting weekend together. We fell in love and have been the most sickening-in-love couple ever since. Brian is everything that I've
always looked for and he's all that I will ever want. I can't wait until the day when he and I can be together more than just every other weekend. I have met my soulmate and there's nothing else I could ask for. Brian always
tells me that the 2 short years that we have to be apart will seem like nothing compared to the rest of our lives that we hope to spend together. I wish the rest of you nothing but success and happiness in your relationships. And to Brian, my lover and my best friend...these have been the best 6 months of my life. We will make it because in our hearts, we just KNOW. I love you baby.

I met my boyfriend when we were seniors in highschool at a state business
conference. I immediately was attracted to him and it took me three days
during the conference to gather the courage to speak to him. He was from a
school 400 miles away from me and we hit it off. Time passed and I dated
several other guys throughout my summer after graduation. I gave him the
shock of his life when I called him out of the blue and that started the ball
rolling. In September he decided to drive 300 miles to come see me and we
knew we couldn't be just friends. At the time I was going to a community
college in Eastern Oregon and he was going to school in Northern Idaho, the
distance was great but we decided to go for it. In October I decided to
transfer to the same college he was at because they have a great program and
because I couldn't bear to be apart anylonger. A week before he came down in
November he told me he loved me and at that moment I knwe it to. THe time
flew and I moved up north, him helping me move into my dorm room. We were
inseparable from that point on and I knew I couldn't lvie without him. We
had a near breakup, but that has just made us stronger. We're currently
living in separate parts of the state for the summer while I have surgery,
but we're making do. We've talked about marriage, but we're waiting a while
longer. He's my lover, my best friend, my confidante.
-Kris

     My boyfriend, Erik, and I started our relationship only about a month before
high school graduation. We really liked each other but had always planned on
separating before we left for college. He would be going to college in
Indiana and I would be staying in California. It just didn't make sense to
put ourselves through the torture of a LDR, especially our first year of
college when we should be having fun, not sitting in our dorm room missing
each other. Well, the time came around for him to leave and when it came
down to it, we just couldn't bear the thought of ending our relationship. He
was my first true love and I was his. It was just too hard to let go of that.
After he left and we had made the decision to stay together, almost every
person I knew shook their head in disapproval. "Long-distance relationships
never work out," "you're just going to end up having hundred dollar phone
bills," and my personal favorite, "you'll be broken up by the time Christmas
Break ends."   I was starting to believe everyone and was getting ready to
throw in the towel when the unthinkable happened. Two days before I was
supposed to leave for college my best friend since Jr. High died. She was
like a sister to me. Her death was by far the worst thing that has ever
happened to me and the hardest thing to accept. I tried to push Erik away
more than ever at that point, but he wouldn't give up on me. He called me
every single day. He gave me the support I needed to go to college that
year. When I had a horrible day and couldn't stop thinking about the
horrible tragedy of my best friend's death, I knew I could call Erik up, cry
as hard as ever, and count on him to lend an ear and help me get the courage
I needed to overcome the depressed feelings inside of me. I didn't know a
soul at college so being able to talk to him about anything really made me
feel more at ease. He helped me pick up the pieces of my life just by being
there for me, even if he wasn't there physically. It has now been 15 months
since we started going out and our relationship is stronger than ever. I
don't know where I would be without him. LDRs may be hard, especially when
you are in college, but so are a lot of things in life. While people still
tell me I'm making a mistake by staying with him, I no longer listen. That
is probably the key to a LDR, following what you yourself believe in. We
have been apart 10 out of the 15 months we've been together, and while
everyone was right about the hundred dollar phone bills, in no way have we
drifted apart or stopped loving each other.
                                   -Megan

I met Josh when I was a junior in high school and it was totally when I wasn't looking for someone to date. He was a senior and even though I knew that in just a few short months, he would be traveling to college...8 hours away. That doesn't seem like a big deal, but he didn't have a car to come home just whenever he wanted. It was really hard when he first left and I was so scared, but somehow, we became closer through that. Then, this summer, he got this amazing offer. They wanted him to travel with a band and that is what he loves, so I encouraged him to do it, even though it meant not seeing him but a couple of weeks in the summer. After not seeing him but about once a month during the school year, it was so hard to think about not seeing him hardly at all during the summer. The summer flew by and we are still together. We have been together for about 2 years and pretty much all of it has been a long distance relationship. We have both started college (he's a sophomore in Virginia) and I just started in South Carolina. I have this amazing peace about our relationship and we are becoming so much closer through this experience. Not that it's easy all the time, but we always like to say that we love each other more than we miss each other. I have total confidence in our relationship and I know that a distance relationship can totally build two people's love for each other. We don't believe in statistics when it comes to our relationship. He is a great guy and I cannot see my life without him. People ask me why I stay with him because it is so hard sometimes, but he is completely worth it. I just wanted to say that LDR's can totally work out if you truly love the person.....

My baby Hillary and I met in High school our junior year and I had to get our mutual friend Julee to help me out. Well after a lot of work, (though she swears she liked me immediately too), I finally was with her and it has been over 2 wonderful years now. She is 3 hours away at college, but we know it could be a lot worse, and also know that the time we are apart will be nothing compared to the rest of our lives together, and that this will all be over before we know it. We did have 2 breakups earlier in our relationship, but no matter what we knew we loved each other, but we feel we have grown stronger and closer as a result. Well as people say the third time is a charm! We are happier than we both have ever been in our lives, and we just stick to our little rituals that we've promised to eachother, like our goodnight talks on the phone every night. She is possibly going to transfer to a university near me because it is has a better program for what she wants to go into, and then we've planned that every summer we will live together. We just want to tell everyone that it is possible to make it through long distance-it is very hard, we know, but just hold onto how you feel, and don't believe it when other people try to come between you, or tell you its not going to work. Only the two of you know the strength of what is between you, and that no force can stop true love once its there. Colt and Hillary.

My boyfriend and I met about four years ago. At first, I wasn't really
into dating him, but we remained the very best of friends for two and a half
years. Then one day, it just went to the next level. Michael and I
have been together for one year and a half. We have been inseperable since
our first date. I really believe that we are soulmates, and he has told me
the same.
One month ago I moved to college. Two weeks ago I found out that Mike
is moving to Arizona on October twelfth of this year. He is going to be
gone for 9 months. I know that it is going to be increadibly hard for me.
I also know that we can make it through this, because we are meant to be
together. We are engaged right now, and plan on getting married in two
years or maybe more, depending on my schooling and our finances.
If something is meant to be yours, you can let it go and it will come
back. That is the only thing that I can think when I start to feel anxious
over the whole situation (which is several times a day).

Wish me luck. October twelfth is coming up quick.

Sincerely,

Stacey

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