OverseasLDR

Non-military Overseas Love Stories:

Overseas can sometimes be the most challenging. Not only do we have distance, but time differences to contend with. Other challenges are citizenship and transportation (after all, we can't drive across the ocean!) Just keep your heads up and stay strong...

Over the summer I was flying home from London to L.A. when I ment Mark. I was flying standby so it was freak chance that I ended up on the same flight as him. I was immediatley struck by his red hair and his wonderful grin as I was getting my bags searched. I had been having a very long and tedious day so he cheered me up immensly. After I finally got on the plane and we were in the air, Mark came up to my seat and started talking to me. We stood in the back of the plane and talked for the entire flight (except when I was ordered back to my seat). He passed me notes on the plane which was just the sweetest thing in the world. I fell in love with Mark in that 10 hour period and when I landed in L.A. I decided to stay an extra night and spend a few more hours with him. (I live in Arizona). Sadly, the next morning I had to haul it to my 5am flight home. Mark lives in Australia, so I haven't been able to see him at all. We have been writing and talking as much as possible though, and I will hopefully be seeing him in the summer. I can't begin to explain how much I love and miss him, so I wont't. That's my sad love story.
-Sonja

Paul and I met in 1997 while I was on a short vacation in Edinburgh, Scotland while overseas for several months on scholorship. Shortly after we met I began to find it harder and harder to visualize my life without this amazing person. For the past three years he has been a constant presence in my life, first as a friend and later on as a soulmate. Although it has been over a year since we had last seen one another, we remain close as ever, fighting for the day to come when we will see one another again. Paul is the love of my life, and although we come from different worlds, we still fall asleep underneath the same sky.
-Jessica

The story of Alissa & Robby
Back in the summer of 1998 I went to the town of my father's birth in Greece. One night at a cafe I ran into a young man that I knew from my childhood but hadn't seen in ten years. He recognized me and came over to say hello. We spent hours talking and he walked me home at the end of the night and it all ended with a kiss. Unfortunately, it was my last night and I was leaving in the morning to come back home to the U.S. My last words were "I'll come back and look for you." We eventually lost touch. Two years later in the summer of 2000 I returned for a trip to the little town of my father's birth in Greece and to my amazement I saw him again at the same cafe that I saw him two years earlier. It was as if things never changed. I stared into his eyes and asked him, "Do you remember the last words that I said to you before I left two years ago?". And with a big smile on his face he said to me, "I'll be back to look for you." Him remembering what I said truely touched me. We spent one wonderful month together and we truely fell in love with each other. Unfortuneately, there came the day when I had to leave again. We both couldn't hold back the tears. It's been a month since we've been away from each other, but the relaitonship is still going strong. He calls me every other night to tell me that there hasn't been a minute that's gone by that he hasn't thought of me. He tells me that he truely misses me and loves me, and that he will wait forever until I see him again. It is so hard without him near me. Sometimes I can't sleep at night. SOmetimes I have an impulse to just get on the next flight to Greece, but it's not that simple. In a few years I get my Master's degree in teaching, I'm planning to move to Greece so we can spend out lives together like that way it should be. But until then, all I can do is wait and hope.

I am not in the military but work for them. I was deployed to Rhine-Main air Base in Frankfurt, Germany for 4 months last year. My first week there, I met a beautiful Norwegian girl in the lounge of the hotel we were staying at. I was 35, divorced, and she was 23 and in Germany to be with her father who had a stroke. We spent almost every day of those 4 months together, even after I was redeployed to Ramstein AB, about 80miles away. Then I had to leave her, and I thought I'd never see her again. We thought that this would be some kind of short term love affair that would end when I left for the states. But it didn't. Since then, she has visited me in Texas three times, and I have visited her in Norway. Before each visit we think that this mgiht be the last, because of the difficulties of maintaining a long distance realtionship like this. But after each visit, we agree to see each other one more time. She left Texas last Wednesday, 30 Aug. She has now graduated college and is looking for a job. We were going to break up, by mutual consent, one more time, but one more time we have agreed to see each other, I will go there for Thanksgiving. For all of you in LD relationships, they are worth it, even with all of the separation, loneliness, and uncertainty.
-David

Hi all ! As i am writing these words tears are pouring like a rain from
the bottom of my heart because it has been around 2 weeks since i said "Bye
Sweetie see you soon" to the love of my life my Quebecian angel
(Canada) and flew back home to Israel where i live from two weeks paradise that i
spent with my man so now i am falling apart emotionaly....... I met my
precious gift from heaven on-line through ICQ he tried random chat and bumped
into me we started talking and since that fateful march we have been
unseparatble.........I felt a special conection with that person from
the very first moment we started talking it is like i was feeling him
without seeing him but just in case i asked for his picture right away and
seeing him in my computer made me almost fall from my chair i found him very
handsome well we both are hahaha after that i started spending long minutes
by just staring at his pictures in my computer........through our long
chats that often lasted 5 houres a day i discovered a man who has the same
culture the same values hopes and dreams like me and who makes my heart beat
each time he pops on ICQ or MSN . So we arranged to meet in Quebec this
october and i flew over 12 hours to see my man .........i will never forget the
hug he gave me when we first saw each other in the airport in Montreal it
felt like two souls kiss each other through the bodys contact a simple hug
that was so special he was holding me with so much feelings like he had
known me forever .............We spent the most beautiful time of our lives
together those 2 weeks that i will remember for the rest of my life but
eventualy i had to leave back home since i am not a Canadian citizen and there was
no way for me to stay my heart was dying in the airport and those long 12
hours flight on the plane where i cried all the way to Israel..... Yes we
love each other very much and yes we intend to marry and spend the rest of
our lives together and making plans to do so but nothing seems to comfort
me right now, i love this man i need this man every day of my life so long
chats on-line and phone calls do not sustain me anymore since i
returned back from Canada every evening i feel bad i want to cry and feel very
depressed what kind relationship is that when you can't see each other
can't touch all those chats phone calls are not the same nothing is equal to
holding your love looking into their eyes and doing things together or
simply hug and watch the TV ! I am not complaining i will be ok i know
and we will be together eventualy but i also know that it is not easy to
immigrate to Canada it takes a long time and lots of money..........but
despite my current depression not even for a second i regret meeting
him or thought about finding someone home because he is my soulmate the most
special love i have had in my life and i will cherish him forever .
Thank you for listening i am already feeling a little better .
Princess.

My love left just this past June '01. I had met her only in Februrary
and soon after that, I knew I would love her forever.
In the summer of '99 I went to Germany with my high school band to play
and to experience the culture for about 17 days or so. Little did I know
then that my future love was the German's band directors daughter. I left
Germany and then the following school year thier band came here for a while
too. So did she, yet I did not know her. They left and I was still clueless.
Then my last year of high school she came over for the whole year for an
exchange program. Although I had just seen here once or twice I had never spoken
to her. Finally, on a trip to state band, we met. I was in the back of a
van and she was in front of me. I accidentally tapped her head and she
turned around. I almost lost my breath, for the first time I looked into her
eyes and I said 'wow...I mean excuse me' Things were never the same sense.
There was only three months from the time we really started dating until she
left, so we did everything together. I wanted to stay with her and she wanted
to stay with me, and so we did. As many of you know, it is crushing to
watch your love board that plane and it is sickening to go home and realize
that you won't be eating diner with them for a long time. After the initial
hell week(the first week) I started to get back in routine(tried to) and
found ways to blow time. We chat, email and call each other often, and we
talk of when I will be going there for a month in December. This goal keeps us
going, knowing that we will once again be in each others arms, laughing
with eachother and doing everyday life things with eachother. Have a goal,
keep the trust and always communicate, then I believe anyone can make it
work.

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