EverCrest Message Forums
You are not logged in. Login or Register.
Author
Topic: I would really appreciate some opinions here...
OtakuPenguin
Peels like a tangerine, but is juicy like an orange.
posted 01-25-2002 08:29:50 PM
Ok, My girlfriend and I have been going out for a good year now, I think I really do love her, and I'm pretty darn sure I love her. We're both 16. She moved to Nevada last month and we have only been able to talk every other day through e-mail and occasionaly voice chat. Her chances of coming back are very slim, since she can get a full scholarship into college there through a program in her school. And, since I plan to attend the Air Force Academy, we will be far apart in college. All of our friends have told us that LD relationships never work, and I'm beggining to think that too.

I don't know...should I break it off?

..:: This Is The Sound Of Settling ::..
Ferret
Poing! Poing!
posted 01-25-2002 08:33:34 PM
Noone can give an answer that you should follow except yourself.
Willias
Pancake
posted 01-25-2002 08:35:12 PM
I would say: Don't believe your friends. Do what you think is right.
Solstyce
Vampiric pixie that might eat your face, if you're lucky
posted 01-25-2002 08:37:41 PM
Not yet. Not until you feel that's all you can do.

I'm in a LD relationship right now, and it IS a pain, I get lonely sometimes. However, I do know i love him, and have faith that despite parental evilness, despite a complete and total lack of money and free time that I AM going to see him and I AM going to live with him someday. The trick is making that someday a reality, and spending as much time as possible talking to her, however you can.

Shhh. Everyone will hear us. Everyone will know.
Darius!
Pancake
posted 01-25-2002 08:39:47 PM
I broke off mine a while ago, it sucks but it was pointless to attempt in the long run. Think hard. I did.
Admiral Darndo
Pancake
posted 01-25-2002 08:42:41 PM
hope for the best because if you have a chance to see her again and you break up you may go crazy. but then what do I know its your choice.
(Crap.I used the humans language again.) -monkey
Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 01-25-2002 08:43:26 PM
LD relationships work with commitment on BOTH parts. It's a bitch sometimes, but if you truly love this person, and she loves you, you'll survive.
That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Beer.

Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 01-25-2002 10:45:06 PM
Not to be a downer, but if you go to the Air Force Academy, I guarantee it won't work. Especially if you have doubts now.

Concentrate on your friendship, without the additional burden of a "relationship," and if you still feel for her (and vice versa) after you graduate, then you know it was worth it.

If it doesn't work out, at least you'll be friends.

Very very very very very few relationships will survive four years of the Academy. You will be a completely different person after only a short time.

BTW, I'm '88 . . . PM me or start a thread if you have any questions.

To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

Comrade Snoota
Communist
Da, Tovarisch!
posted 01-25-2002 10:53:16 PM
Is she hot?

<lives in Nevada!>

This is Snoota's pointless post of the day. Not only am I not desperate enough to do that, she is what is known as 'jail bait' to us growed up folk.

You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.
Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 01-25-2002 10:54:59 PM
Really?

What's the age of consent in Nevada? 16 is fairly average as states go . . .

Humor disclaimer.

To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

Comrade Snoota
Communist
Da, Tovarisch!
posted 01-25-2002 10:55:47 PM
Heh. I really don't know. I thought it was 17 though.
You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.
Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 01-25-2002 11:00:18 PM
Age of consent laws are funky. I'll just say this: If you're more than two years older/younger than your sweetie, and the elder of you is 18, it's illegal.

Not that that's ever stopped teen loving from taking place.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Beer.

Toktuk
Pooh Ogre
Keeper of the Shoulders of Peachis Perching
posted 01-25-2002 11:11:02 PM
quote:
The Otaku Penguin had this to say about Optimus Prime:
I don't know...should I break it off?

In the end, I think it would be for the best.

Very few teenage relationships last after high school. You do a lot of growing up during that time and make a lot of mistakes, and most relationships can't survive the "baggage" of it all, if that makes any sense. I have a friend who recently broke up with his fiance after being with her for five years. They knew each other so well and had been together for so long, that it was hard for them to finally break it off. They just grew up in different directions and made a lot of mistakes, relationship wise, simply because neither of them had been in a real, mature relationship before. In the end, they couldn't forgive each other for the mistakes that most people simply make as a learning process that comes in life.

Of course, that's just my opinion. I know it's a gloomy one, but you asked...

-Tok

The Goddess
Pancake
posted 01-26-2002 09:24:02 AM
I say try a long distance relationship. They're not as bad as everyone seems to think. I've been in one since March with a guy who lives in Alabama (I live in NC), and I've never been happier. Although I will admit - you have to make a lot of compromises and such in order to see each other every now and then. It might not work if you don't get to see each other at least once every two months.

But anyway, I suggest you give it a try for a few months and see if you're happy. If you just break it off now without knowing, you might wonder if you did the right thing later on.

Geek code version 3.12: GO d-(--) s-:- a--- C++ w PS+ PE- t--- 5? R+ tv+ b+++ DI+++ G- e* h r++ x?
Jalal d'Varr
Still a gnome!
posted 01-26-2002 09:26:42 AM
Webcams are your best friends.
Trent
Smurfberry Moneyshot
posted 01-26-2002 11:01:41 AM
If you're pretty damn sure you love her, why are you thinking of breaking it off?

Yes LD relationships are hard, and a lot of them do fail. Some survive the distance though.

If nothing else, take Sages advice and be friends without the relationship part and see how you both still feel after college.

All times are US/Eastern
Hop To: