tugging at my heart strings...

[chutzpah89]

Hi all. I'm new to this site and wanted to she some light on my experience with LDRs. I'm only 19, but yet I've been through so much already. My So and I met in Jan. 2007 and began dating in Feb. of that same year. We both had been in serious relationships before and were determined to take it slow. After a couple months went by, I fell in love and he did as well. We were obsessed with each other. But that was our senior year, and although we both already lived in different counties, he was planning on going to school out of state, which meant leaving me. I didn't really have high hopes, we had only been together for 6 months before he left, and although I loved him, I honeslty didn't see how it was going to work, but he talked me into giving it a shot. We saw each other maybe once a month, if that. It was very hard to hear of his life there, when I wasn't really a big part of it. He'd go to parties, and I'd be depressed, and vice versa. We spoke to each other every day. He came home 9 months later, for this past summer, and we've grown even more fond of each other. We want to stay together forever and get married one day. He has one more year at the college and is leaving this sunday. Its been hurting me inside b/c I know whats about to come. I've grown accostume to him being here with me, and all of those LDR feelings I have forgotten. And now, to go through it again, its going to hurt more than ever. He keeps assuring me that its just one more year, but I know that a lot can happen in one year...and I'm not too sure I can hurt that much again. I'm gunna give it a shot b/c I love him more than anything. But emotionally, I'm not ready to ride that roller coaster again. I hope a year from now I can write in here of our success and help anyone else going through the same thing. I'll keep checking back to maybe help others out, and I also have many thoughtful ideas that can help many of you as well. As for now, I'd like to hear some successful LDR stories, so that maybe, just maybe, I can find hope.