Waking up together. Obvious. This is heaven. No time zone calculation. It’s 3pm for you? It’s 3pm for your other half too. No more Skype. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee We can text! There’s something about being able to text and not use Whatsapp. Feels great. Picking her up from work. I love this. Talking! Before and after work. Sitting down to … More 10 Amazing Things About Closing The Distance
If you think it has, trust me: it hasn’t. I’m talking about that feeling of it finally ‘hitting you’. That moment when you know that you’ve done it, you’re flying over tomorrow/today/yesterday/a few days ago, and your new life with your other half is about to start. At last. If you think that’s hit yet, I’m just … More Closing The Distance 101: ‘Hitting’
So this is kind of a big one: my first post from the USA! After fifteen long months, several thousand forms, a million Skype calls and emails and Whatsapp messages and YouTube videos, we finally made it. I hopped onto a Delta Airlines flight (which was super comfy and had maybe twenty people on board … More Closing The Distance 101: The One Way Flight
A friend of mine had his (successful) visa interview recently, so I asked him if I could post his email about it up here. I felt much better in the run-up to mine whenever I read someone else’s experience at the embassy (the US Embassy in London, to be clear) so hopefully this will be … More London Embassy Interview Experience
So, here I am, three days left before I fly over to America and my other half. #NoReturnFlight, baby. I. Can’t. Wait. It’s been a hell of a year getting here, and we’ve slogged through many a trench on the way, and it has been entirely, 100%, worthwhile. And I’m not even there yet! I … More Hindsight
This post was triggered by a comment I received recently, but it’s a question you’ll see a lot on visa forums and is a pretty big issue for a lot of potential globe-trotters in the LDR world. Why would you need one? Do you need one at all? Tina and I chose not to hire … More To Lawyer, Or Not To Lawyer?
Seriously, you will. If you’re reading this, there’s a reasonable chance that you’re in a long distance relationship. The more I look into the phenomenon, the more I realise how widespread it is, and how varied. A lot of LDR couples are parted by job moves across the US, or college moves, or family ties. … More You Will Get There.
A little something that’s been marinating in the slow cooker of my mind for a few days: what is it about long distance relationships that makes them different, thinking about not just the fact that the people involved are apart but also about how you have to communicate? Thing One: you develop trust and open … More The Difference With Distance
So? Well, it feels like a whole bunch of things. The first, for me, was a sort of light-headedness. Relief. Holy shit, we did it. I’m holding it. Everything worked out in the end. The waiting, the long distance, the separation, the loneliness, is all finite now. We did it. The second feeling was something like … More How Does It Feel To Have A Visa In Your Hand?
Also done for a laugh or two, as should be obvious pretty quickly… Sure, I get that you can’t make it tonight/have to leave early. Skype calls are your main form of connection and I appreciate that, especially as I get to see my significant other every night. What a fortunate pig I am. I … More 7 Things You Definitely Should Say To People In Long Distance Relationships
Long Distance Love Songs 