Originally Posted by
3timesalady
indeed, this is an interesting thread (though I'm not sure how I ended up here, as I thought I was in OMNI!)
No green limes here either, 3times.
Let me add my story. I've had 2 LDR's (and one in-between that I don't count). The first was for about 18 months in the mid-90s with a gal who then lived in MSP. We met via AOL. I averaged going there about every other weekend and mostly lived up there the two summers, as I could run my business from there. As everyone else has said, built up a lot of FF miles that way.
We did a lot by email when we weren't together. Her work wasn't the type that she could find employment easily in southern WV where I teach, so we eventually drifted apart.
Before meeting my wife (next paragraph), I saw a gal from RIC for about a month. That was going ok until a "friend" of hers broke in her house, read emails from her and I on her computer and a gun was involved. At that point in the story (as she's telling me this on the phone), she said to me that if you don't want to be involved in any of this, I understand. Well, I didn't want to, and I never saw her again. I think this might take a prize in the fastest a relationship had ever ended. One minute things are fine... next minute, buh-bye. (Funny thing was I was home grading exams that afternoon when she called... and suddenly my weekend and holiday freed up. Bad thing was I had to undo all kinds of travel plans I had made for her and I for Christmas. Luckily I had award tickets that could be redeposited, hotels could be cancelled, and I was only about about $80 in non-refundable plane tickets.)
I met my now wife about 3 months after the first LDR ended (and about 10 days after the RIC story). She was living near FLL with her dad, who was down there for work. I flew down to meet her the day after Christmas. They were originally from northern Ohio, about 20 minutes from Cedar Point. I did the travel for about a couple of months until she finally said, it would be cheaper if we got married, so we got married the end of July 1997. In some ways, I wish we would have waited longer, as we might not have tied the knot (it's not been a great marriage)... but then again, we wouldn't have had GoFaresBoy 6 years ago either.