...suck. So many important conversations are put off cos you want the little time you have physically together to be fun and pleasurable.

Anyway...off to Chicago for a few days.

You get used to it.

And then, when you stop trying, it falls apart.

like any relationship

and this thread can be closed.

We have to break up with it via text message first !

I have a friend who used to date a tattooed, teenaged South-Texas chick long distance.

That ended with him hiding in a cheap motel room in Kalamazoo, Michigan after the girl reverse-kidnapped him at her apartment for a few days.

While there he invented the concept of "the Flea-Headed God of Misogyny".

I dated a speed freak marketing executive from SF.  That ended when he decided to drive to wine country for a fix at 3 am when he couldn't get ahold of his regular dealer.

For those who dont know, thats how far ?

 I recall fondly driving around the ghetto at an absurd hour while my formerly heroin-addicted lady friend chatted up every black guy standing on a street corner in her quest for more cocaine.

 Decided to call it a night before I ended up shooting or running down one of those assholes for their persistent attempts to sell her instead on crack or heroin.

Long distance for me, is > 10 miles.

I did LDR for 2 years, then we lived together for 5 years. And we all know how that ended...

I tell myself that I will not do an LDR ever again.

yeah? wanna cyber?

We have to break up with it via text message first !

Ha! We actually joked about that on the phone last night. How it would be way classier to break up via txt than, say, a facebook update. Cos a text is at least sent directly and just to the recipient, who would get the information first.

Anyway, thanks, y'all. In that strange and very special way that only we can pull off - your selfish one-upmanship has actually helped ease my mind a little.

Anyway, thanks, y'all. In that strange and very special way that only we can pull off - your selfish one-upmanship has actually helped ease my mind a little.

LOADED-GUN FAIL

He's lucky, in love.

We have to break up with it via text message first !

Ha! We actually joked about that on the phone last night. How it would be way classier to break up via txt than, say, a facebook update. Cos a text is at least sent directly and just to the recipient, who would get the information first.

Haha. One of my friends actually found out that the relationship was off from facebook first. He noticed in an update that his girlfriend had just listed herself as single. I guess she intended to make it official later that day by telling him to his face, but still he found out via facebook. I was telling him hey at least her update wasn't that she was now dating someone else.

Anyway, thanks, y'all. In that strange and very special way that only we can pull off - your selfish one-upmanship has actually helped ease my mind a little.

We care a lot.

Faith No More - We Care A Lot

He's lucky, in love.

For those who dont know, thats how far ?

Two hours there and two hours back.

That's not too bad. I used to do about the same (Brisbane - Nimbin) for weed sometimes.

What a terrible application of oneself.

Not if it was up hill both ways.

It is. Nimbin is a special place.

I did LDR for 2 years, then we lived together for 5 years. And we all know how that ended...

I tell myself that I will not do an LDR ever again.

My wife and I did that for about three years. Then, we got hitched and have been together on our trip for some time.

I hate the idea of a long distance relationship.  I really like the guy I was dating this summer, but he lives in Raleigh.  It's four states away!  He is so great, sexy, sweet, and would be good for me, but I would have to wait until he got his master's degree in december to date him.  I guess that is not that long, but I mean, I don't even know if he would want to be with me or live here.  See?!  It's already sounding like a mess.

 People are messy. And complicated and foolish and crazy and at times much more fragile than they seem. You either deal with it or die alone.

I don't have a problem finding someone to date, I have a problem finding someone worth dating.

You can be married and still be alone, in the sense in which I meant it.