Icebreakers
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What have you (& your partner) given up to make your relationship work?
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Money. Time. Normalcy. With so much distance between us, we connect in unorthodox ways, and spend much time and money traveling to see one another.
We havent given up anything because everything works. For now, we go to school together so we see eachother then, then he comes over after and then i go to work and he come over after work. He sleeps over on weekends:)
We have given up a lot of personal time with our families because we live so far away from each other and we had to choose our time to spend with each other wisely.
I have given up shopping. He open given more of himself.
We have made lots of sacrifice to see our relationship work. I love him for that:)
It has taken much sacrifice on both our parts but we are worth it.
Male, >50 years, Dating, MD, US | Feb 03, 2012
Male, >50 years, Dating, MD, US | Feb 03, 2012
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We both drastically changed our lives to be together. I was living two thousand miles away in Texas. I moved cross country to be with my fiancée. He was used to living without children and we now live together with my three boys. He gave up living alone without kids, without messes, and noises, etc. We have now lived together almost a year giving up our previous lives and couldn't be happier <3
i gave up smoking.
Intimacy
Still working on it.
Partying
See each other :-(
My answer would be that we have given up being able to do the nice day to day things people would normally do together. But then i appreciate so much the times we do spend and I have special memories from each, and I definitely think about that more. Xx
Female, 36-40 years, Dating, NSW, AU | Feb 04, 2012
Female, 36-40 years, Dating, NSW, AU | Feb 04, 2012
i feel very lucky having someone as intelligent, rational, sensitive and thoughtful as you are (its actually a uncommon), it has always been one of the things that makes you so special to me.
Male, 36-40 years, Dating, QLD, AU | Feb 05, 2012
Male, 36-40 years, Dating, QLD, AU | Feb 05, 2012
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I live in the worst place ever now to save money for the move I'm going to make. It's worth it, because all I can think about is how happy we'll be when we are together. :) he has sacrificed time with friends to see me and lots of time traveling to visit.
i made him ( after a year he finally did this) give up his ex. no more sneaking behind my back with her or saying i love u and crap. finally feels like we are together now. jerk!
A lot. At the top of the list is convenience. Long distance is no joke but we do what we can. It's worth it...he's worth it.
