Love ? I love love love you. (Photo credit: @Doug88888)
Today, Jan and I have been together for nine years! Unbelievable. At the beginning, I never expected us to make it this far. I was on my year abroad, I’d recently broken up with someone else and my longest relationship until that point had been less than a year.
We’ve had our struggles and ups and downs, of course – starting when, after six months of being together, I had to go back to England to complete my degree while Jan went off to America for a year. Ironically, I had previously broken up with someone because I couldn’t handle being in a long-distance relationship – and the distance in that case was only between Northumberland and Nottingham (sorry Jay!!). However, neither of us wanted to break up at that point, so we agreed to try, and somehow it worked! Despite the fact that we only saw each other once, for precisely one week, between my 21st birthday in August 2004 and my graduation in July 2005 (my dad bought me a return flight to America as my Christmas present in 2004).
Long distance love (Photo credit: Dvortygirl)
After another year of long-distance – this time with me in Austria (read that carefully – it’s the one without the kangaroos) and Jan back in Germany, I decided that seeing my boyfriend an average of once a month wasn’t enough for me and made plans to move to Germany.
And now, almost six-and-a-half years later – I moved back in September 2006 - here we are celebrating our 9 year “anniversary” (I wish I could think of another word for that…). I wonder what the next year will bring?
You have overcome hurdles many don’t, exciting times! Anything could happen
Yes, I think that’s part of the reason we’re still together. If you can survive a long-distance relationship AND find out you still work once you’re back in the same country anything is possible
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Wow – 9 years including a lot of long-distance lovin’! Good for you two! Stick with it
x
Thank you. I’m doing my best
Congrats! We had a horrible long-distance 9 months at the start of our relationship (England-Germany), I moved over there, we both moved back to England in August and now we’re horribly entwined in a work-related distance thing again…at least until the Summer…rubbish! On the up-side, we’re only about 2 hours apart this time
Aaah, that is rubbish indeed! But yeah, 2 hours isn’t tooo bad. At least he’s in the right country
Herzlichen Glückwunsch
Danke!
CONGRATULATIONS !!!
Wow. That is really an achievement!!
My longest relationship went broken just before it turned two… I hope that there is still hope also for me
Staying together isn’t the hardest part, in my experience. I’m sure there is still hope for you