Please List Your Long Distance Relationship Stories and Advice! Anything Will Help

While it’s unusual for high school relationships to survive distance and growth (or even lack of distance and growth - growth is always a given), it does happen. And sometimes it doesn’t work out in the short term, but couples reconnect later in life and it does; I know of several instances of that happening.

A friend of mine once wisely said that successful relationships are based on three things: luck, timing, and a bit of magic. To that I would add maturity (but that often is tied into the timing factor). Meeting the right person at the wrong time can sometimes work itself out later in life (and I don’t necessarily believe that there is only one right person). The pitfalls come when you meet the wrong person at the right time.