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Originally Posted by alessia55
My boyfriend and I want to get married, but we both want to do it when we can actually live together- which is not right now, because we both want to go to grad school in different states. But distance won't stop us from being together!  We've been together for 2yrs11mos (3yrs in January!) and we're still madly in love and we both hope that never changes ♥ (awwwww  ) |
I hate to be THAT person but...
2 good friends of mine were together for about 3.5 years when they graduated last spring. They had discussed getting married but, like you, wanted to put it off until they were both done with school. He was going to grad school to be an optometrist in Tennessee and she was moving back home to Chicago (about a 9 hour drive apart). Within 2 months of him moving there (they spent most of the summer here, together) he met someone else and they broke up. Long distance relationships CAN work but you have to be 100% dedicated to each other, and things like the above happen all too frequently when two people are so far apart regardless of how much they love each other. On the flip side my cousin and her now-husband first met here while he was living in Chicago and she in St. Louis and they started travelling to see each other and finally moved back here to be together. They are however both done with college and had stable jobs that allowed them to spend the time and money to make their fledgling relationship work.
I'm not saying it won't work, but it will be difficult, especially with both of you in school and "college broke". I wish you the best of luck, in spite of the odds.
Shaun, congrats on 23 years. My parents hit the big 3-0 this past May and they love each other more now then they did when they first got married.
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