What is your advice?
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Make it a short distance relationship.
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Long distance makes the relationship shorter ! :D
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keep it up, life should be full of thrill and adventure...
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It Sucks
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A new?
I think it can work out if you're planning on getting married in future. ahem
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sent you a PM
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Be open about everything, not critical.
And make it clear what your end goal is.
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IT IS NOT IMPORTANT THAT LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP DOESN'T WORK
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BF? Maingaiter? Khawand? What kind of relationship are you talking about?
btw, no matter what kind of longdistance relationship it is, things get blurred after sometime.
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keep an open mind...see how it goes!
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very, very difficult on both parties.
both need to have a clear vision of what they are looking for and where they are headed.
also very difficult to truly get to know someone.
I know of a guy that backed away from just such a situation because of the long distance and how it would make it hard for him to get to know the girl well enough to marry her.....
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so no body has any positive experiences??
Im sure many people on this forum had one!!
Re: A new Long Distance Relationship...
so no body has any positive experiences??
Im sure many people on this forum had one!!
Yes? and?
Re: A new Long Distance Relationship...
so no body has any positive experiences??
Im sure many people on this forum had one!!
Not me personally but we have 2 close friends that did this. B/C of residency, they lived in different states for several years while dating. 1 couple got married almost 2 years ago and another one got married last year.
From hearing them talk....it's hard. Both couples constantly flew back and forth (at least once a month) to see each other. Of course, as Muzna already wrote....having a very clear vision of what you want and communicating that with the other person is crucial.
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Yah
I would say its really hard I know a lady who's engaged now to a Japanese guy (they met on some site) they had a language barrier at first but she learned Japanese and it was good, now that they've been dating in "real life" per say they have run into a bit of problems; minor ones such as cultural differences. for example women (24+) don't wear shorts or expose too much skin in Japan so the guy was uncomfortable with it and she compromised with over the knee shorts.
Another example would be a lady I know who met her now husband on a chat room thing and although it wasn't intentional one thing to another and they were in a relationship for a couple of years before the woman flew over to India and got married there.
Also having cultural differences etc.
My experience is that if you don't have the commitment, patience and communication skills the relationship becomes really turbulent but I think that comes with every relationship online or offline.
Some say they are more honest online then offline depends what you're comfortable with
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I wanted to add.....the 2 couples I mentioned in my previous post.....1 was introduced through mutual friends. And the 2nd couple, they met locally, dated for a few months before the girl moved to a different state for residency. But in both cases, thanks to TONS of mutual friends, both were well aware of each other's background, family details etc.
I would be very careful of meeting a total stranger online and doing a long-distance relationship with them since I'd have no way of knowing whether or not they were being honest about their life. Too many horror stories out there about people lying online (heck I have personal friends who ended up divorced after going through a marriage in situations like this).
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Oh not to mention trust
Yes, if you wanted to you could just go block everything about the person (I've done that to several people) and forget about them but I guess with a relationship its different. You get to know about his/her family, friends, work etc etc and if you wanted to you could become friends with his/her friends and they can become friends with yours.
btw the great thing about social network sites is that you can easily stalk ;p so thats one way
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This is not an online thing.
I actually met the person and got to know them pretty well i saw him everyday I was in canada, I started liking him but didnt say anything then on the day I left he expressed his feelings for me, he knows my background very well and my past and I know his past.
He saw me in the morning without makeup and dressed up for the shaadi.
We are committed and want to make this work.
The long distance bit is the hard bit though. Thats what I want advice on.
I feel uncofortable opening up on here for some reason as its early days and I REALLY want this to work, like badly.
(paheli will reply shortly :) )
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You know, if you’d just include these crucial details in the original post, you’d save me time from writing unnecessary crap. 
So I assume you two have mutual friends? As in you know people in Canada who socialize with him regularly?
Also, assuming this works out…how often do you plan on seeing each other? Realistically, how often can he fly to UK and how often can you fly to Canada? How old is he?