Long-distance relationships?, I'm going to college next year... Options

[red94celicagt]

Hey guys!

I am graduating this year, and my girlfriend of one year (as of June 24th) is only a junior this year. I live in Akron right now (about 30 mins from cleveland) and I will be going away to college in Cincinnati to study mechanical/electrical engineering. If you don't know, it is a nice 3 hour drive from Akron to Cincinnati (going 75 the whole time). I am wondering if anyone is maintaining a long distance relationship right now and how is it?

I plan to live on campus (duh) but perhaps drive up to akron to see my girlfriend, family and friends every other weekend. I will also be back up on the school breaks and for next summer.

We are pretty serious, going very strong after one year with our only fights being very little ones that we can solve the same day. I have had my fair share of girlfriends in high school, but this one is very different from the rest. We were best friends for almost a year before we started dating, and I know eveyrthing about her and vice versa. Her parents love me as well as her brothers. We've talked about maybe getting married later on (not until I graduate and have a job set up) but the talk is defiantely there.

So do you guys think we can make this work? I figure seeing her 2 weekends a month as well as nightly phone conversations and AIM/webcam things, we can get through this. Any tips from people who have gone through this? Girls, post here and tell me how hard it would be for you to be in a long distance realtionship from your boyfriend and if you had any advice for me to keep this relationship going.

[red94celicagt]

thanks Jen I'm going to try my hardest and I'm sure my girlfriend would say the same thing. I don't want to get married until I have my career "established" at least until I get my master's and have a career that will pay the bills. I figure that won't be until I'm about 24. We both already agreed that we don't want to be engaged for more than a year either, so that's out also

I'm glad you're happy Jen, finding someone who cares about you as much as you do about them is a rare thing now-a-days, and I can say I coulda sk for nothing more...(besides a VERY cheap 3sgTe engine swap )