Mr. ACB and I dated long distance for a year. I was in Chicago, he was in NYC. We met at a business meeting in Albuquerque and over the course of a few weeks of e-mail, started dating at a business meeting in Tampa (as much as you can date at a business meeting).

We were lucky because fares were very low throughout the course of our long distance relationship (175.00 roundtrip, usually, from LGA to ORD and vice versa) and we were able to take long weekends and work out of each other's offices on Fridays or Mondays as we worked for the same company.

A year of this and I managed to get transferred to NY. I lived with a random roommate for six months and moved in with Mr. ACB six months later, and we were engaged about a year after that. I'm not going to lie, it was very rough in the beginning. Dating long distance has a thrill about it that is very different from day to day life with someone--every time we saw each other, it was like a vacation. The transition took me months, as I left all of my friends and a solid life in Chicago for the great unknown of NYC.

But, it all worked out, and Mr. ACB and I welcomed our first child, a daughter, eight weeks ago. So we definitely had a happy ending to our long distance romance. And we often joke that that year of LDD was the best of our relationship, as we only had to "deal" with each other once or twice a month. :-)