Quote Originally Posted by bigmac View Post
Over the past 24 years I have lost track of how many times I've bought and sold houses, put my possessions into store, changed my job, moved countries, come home with nowhere to stay except some cheap hostel or a friend's spare room...all in the interests of maintaining a LDR or a marriage.
That's a mighty big price to pay. It's been bad enough going through it 8 years, let alone 24 of them.

I'm sure my wiser parents wouldn't of approved neither would I if my children did the same thing.
What do you do. .you hopefully learn from experience.

LDR was awful. ..I nearly lost my job with my last relationship. We met online December 6 2008. I went out to see her in the January for a 3 week holiday, I ended up staying til March. I was out there again in the June , that time I only stayed 3 weeks. ...out again in the October, staying until she had the spouse visa in the December. We arrived as a married couple exactly a year to the day we met December 6 2009. Less approximately 23k spent in that period.

I can safely say, a LDR isn't for me.