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8/24/2012 2:14:26 PM

Weekends (unless out of town) & 2-3 times during the week

We live 45min apart (fucking Houston!) despite it only being like 20mi....

We would see each other every day if we didn't live so far away. We both have pets & he works 10min from his house so several weekday overnights in a row isn't feasible.

8/24/2012 2:44:57 PM

Once every few weeks...but this time it's going to be 8 weeks before I see him...

But when he comes home he will be home for 6 months.

8/24/2012 5:32:48 PM

blah. we live in the same house.... but that is it.

8/24/2012 5:56:59 PM

i sometimes catch a view of her on google earth

not a very detailed pic, so far though

8/24/2012 7:13:50 PM

Before we were married, we lived apart (Birmingham and Raleigh) for almost two years. During the summer we got to see each other for a week or two at a time, but during school sometimes it would be once a month. Our longest span was 8 weeks - that one really sucked.

[Edited on August 24, 2012 at 8:00 PM. Reason : And I completely agree with Skwink ]

8/24/2012 7:53:53 PM

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"I just glanced at 'my husband' lol"

You have a husband!

8/24/2012 8:13:37 PM

After living together for 3 years, she moved to Richmond at the end of May to start grad school. I'm still in Raleigh because I needed to keep my full-time job here while trying to look for one up there. So we've spent 4 weekends together in the past 3 months. The adjustment has been hard, but I'm working 65 hrs/week and she's starting a masters program so neither of us has a lot of free time. Probably good in a way. We do skype or talk on the phone every night. I'm starting to believe in the whole "absence makes the heart grow fonder" thing--while I wouldn't say we took each other for granted before, being apart makes each of us appreciate the other that much more when we are together.

When I do move up there to join her, it's probably going to be another adjustment getting used to living together again. But it will be great in comparison to the current setup.

Living together previously worked out pretty well for us--while we did occasionally fight about things like housework (I'm slack, I'll admit it) we got engaged last New Year's so I'd say the experiment was successful. Though we both moved pretty slowly; we had been a couple just short of 2 years when we moved in together.

8/24/2012 11:35:32 PM

^

[Edited on August 25, 2012 at 6:47 PM. Reason : ]

8/25/2012 6:47:23 PM

every other weekend, since that's how often I'm in NC.

8/25/2012 6:50:56 PM

My wife and I both work from home (different jobs though)... unless she is traveling usually 2-4 hours max.

8/25/2012 6:52:29 PM

I think skwinkle is talking about me

8/26/2012 9:37:30 AM

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"I enjoy doing pretty much everything with my SO. "

That is me too , however sometimes he does go out of town for work. I am kind of used to the weeks of 'independence' followed by weeks of being together. We are a lot alike though. I guess I am the weaker one because I will get sad if he leaves for a few months, but I don't mope.... shit I don't have time to mope, I just want to get my shit done and graduate, I get so much work done though. And I only have a handful of friends that I like to regularly hang out with.

when I was an undergrad and lived in the dorms he would come every weekend, then after we dated for 2 years we moved in together, and (5 yrs after dating) now we are engaged

[Edited on August 26, 2012 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

8/26/2012 9:52:33 AM

My husband and I just spent a week apart because he had to go away on business. In 6 years of marriage, I've never been separated from him for that long without another adult with me. (I've gone with the children and visited family or Elise was living with me.) This time I was on my own and as much as I love being with my husband, life was actually easier without him. Knowing that I had to do everything on my own without counting on someone else made things around here go a lot smoother. Sure, it was more work, but perceptually easier. When you're not waiting for someone else to do something or doing things you weren't planning on doing because your partner forgot to do it, it's less stress. Not to mention, I didn't have to hold meals or bedtime because of his work schedule and tendency to do overtime.

/tldr; i'm a naggy woman who thinks her husband is more work, but that's just my perception not the reality of it.

8/26/2012 10:23:08 AM