Stuck between a moose and a blender (5)

4 Name: Secret Admirer : 2006-08-02 11:32 ID:YXyTzDPb

>>2
I've tried to maintain two long distance relationships, and the first one failed because of that the relationship was doomed from the start because of our personalities. The second one has been going very well, to the point of us wanting to get married, as all of the months we've spent together IRL just made us want to be together forever. (the time we've known each other = 2 years as online aquaintances, 2 years as best friends over teh intarwebs, and then 2 years as best friends and significant others, out of which we've spent time together IRL on many occasions, including several months in a row).
I know another couple in real life that were in a long distance relationship, until they decided they wanted to get married. They've been happily married for the past two and a half years, by now. They're far from the only long distance relationships I've seen work, and I've also seen plenty of such fail. I've personally seen almost as many in real life relationship fail as online, and almost as many succeed online as in real life. Don't underestimate the great difficulties most people have with finding a good life partner IRL.

>>1
Perhaps you two should take a break, and your girlfriend to try to discover her mother's reasons? Your girlfriend definitely needs to sit down with her mom and demand some logical and rational reasons. If the mom actually wants what's best for her, she is supposed to be able to put forth good arguments for her actions. Ignorance and lack of communication is an excellent way of feeding fear and knee-jerk reactions.
Question, by the way: How old are you two? If you're gonna say that she's 16, or something, then her mother's reactions strike me as a little more understandable.

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