And all the miles between us
We're Danielle and Doug.
We're a couple with 3245 miles between us. We sarted this Tumblr to meet other LDR couples, field relationship questions/criticisms, and document the countdown of our first meeting together, August 6th, 2012.
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I mentioned we hadn’t posted last night to Dani when another LDR blog fanmailed us, and I agree with Danielle that maybe we should just delete this.
We started it because we were going to post here rather than our individual blogs, but that hasn’t happened, if anything we’ve cross posted.
Who knows, if anyone’s interested we might keep it and offer advice, but there are a lot of other LDR blogs out there, each with our own different situations and experiences so it depends on yours.
However, any questions about us, even non-LDR?
I was talking to one of the guys in work about my relationship. He’d known I had a girlfriend but somehow we hadn’t gone past that fact.
He asked how I was, and such, and I replied that I was happy this was shift 7 in the count down, he asked what countdown so I explained to him the next 6 / 7 weeks and we got chatting about how Danielle and I met, how we weren’t a typical LDR (I don’t mean to categorise but like we don’t just Skype a few times a week and that’s it), and he was so supportive which mean’t a lot. We normally have a good banter back and forth based on the fact I’m 5ft 5 and he’s like 6ft 7 but for once we had a pretty “serious” chat; see the thing is he’s from England so knows about leaving the place he’s known and moving somewhere. He said “that’s actually how I came to this Godforsaken country in the first place *wink*, my brother met his other half online” (or it was his sister meeting her bf, I can’t remember), and he went on to say that he totally gets it, he know it’s tough and such and he’s “not one of those narrow minded people who even in this day and age will judge people who meet online”.
And honestly trying not to judge him but I was so happily surprised when we talked about this; he is also someone who backs that idea of having your “one”. I was saying how it’s almost 5 month since I sent a certain text telling Danielle that I liked her but wasn’t sure what we were going to do and how far we’ve come from there, and how different it was, and he said “Well Dougy boy, when you know you know, I’ve only been with (name is girl he married 3 weeks back) 2 years and I knew when I met her!”.
I wouldn’t blame you if you have your reservations, it’s only human nature, we see relationships fail all the time, but we also see those remarkable ones which keep going, and I know ours will be one of them.
I couldn’t care what most people think of my relationship but I’m so happy everyone I talk to is chuffed for me, and it’s nice to have kind words said about us, in a way it may only be 5 months since we started, but we’ve been talking constantly for the past 8 months. I will happily say that I want to spend the rest of my life with Danielle. It’s not just that I feel different and everything is much better, it’s the order of magnitude of how incredibly great it is.
The past few days while Danielle has been in DC have been in some ways so hard, unable to FaceTime we miss each other so much.
But it is also been really great for us as a couple, we’ve learned more about each other, had some great, loving, deep, open and honest conversations, we’ve got to know more about each other and our interests, it’s just been really good.
I’d love to have any questions the floor may have…?
23 days until Doug and I meet for the very first time. HOLY SHIT.
AND OMFG SHE JIST ROLLED OVER RUBBED HER NOSE ALL CUTE AND DIDNT EVEN WAKE.
so in love!
Hasta la vista (Taken with Instagram)
This young lady makes me happier than I could possibly explain. She means the world to me and it sucks I can’t be with her, cuddle her, and love her in person. One day though, not too far off, I’ll be with her all the time.
These next 5 weeks will fly by, loads happening!
So Doug and I usually fall asleep on FaceTime every night and today he had work so basically he was rustling around and it kind of woke me up but I was still just laying there half asleep and I guess he thought I was and he just, really quietly, kind of just gave me like two kisses and said “I love you” and it was so cute because I know one day he’ll be here and I’ll be sleeping and he’ll actually kiss me before he leaves for work. I cannot wait.
^^^^
😒😒😒 (Taken with Instagram)
Less than 6 weeks & I get to hang out with this face.
Excited doesn’t cover it.
