You wouldn't want to be involved with (date) someone if they lived more than ___ hours away from you ?

I can’t drive to where my SO lives. It takes three flights totaling 24 hours.

It would depend on how crazy about said person I was. There is no set “distance” that I rule it out completely. But distance is taken into account when considering a relationship.

24–48 hours, otherwise i can live with it. LOL.

I will not date someone who lives more than an hour’s travel from me.

I don’t get involved in long-distance relationships. If we have a relationship and one of us has to move, that’s a different story.

i have to drive 3 hours. and it SUCKS

2h
my current gf is 2 days away by plane

it’s a nightmare

@Jack79 Wow! Where in the world can’t you get to by plane in a day?

I am currently on a Greek island and need to connect via Athens
She is in a Polish town, and I need to take a train from Warsaw
Even with the best planning it’s a full day (with no rest in between and if you’re lucky).

The way back is even worse, because it involves night flights.

@Jack79 Wow! Sounds like quite an ordeal. I dread a connection in Detroit and Tokyo.

My SO and I are about 8 hours apart in a car, but the time zone changes, so I lose an hour when visiting him, and vice versa when he makes the journey to see me. It can be extremely frustrating at times, but I’d still date him if he lived on the other side of the world. :)

I started a relationship with 2500 miles between us. We knew each other before, so it’s not like it was a mail-order bride thing. It was a crappy five months until we got to be together the first time. A couple months later, she moved to my town.

I tend not to get into relationships that are long distance, i like to just be able to ‘pop’ round to see my other half, longest fir me would be about 1hr

Holy shit. I wouldn’t even want to date someone who lived ONE hour away from me!

When a date someone, we live together. That’s just how I operate.

@girlofscience well each to their own and all that

How far is London from the place where I actually work?
It depends. Range is 2–10 hours by plane.

Is (was) it worthy?
Yes, even If my ****ing plane had to fly around the world two times before landing in Heathrow.

When I begin to pity myself for not getting to see my SO for 6 weeks or so, thoughts of one of my friends comes to mind. Her boyfriend is in the army, about to leave for a tour in Iraq for 6 months, return for two weeks, then head off again. She’s 17, like me, and that is what I consider commitment.

A little add on to my previous answer: My boyfriend is Indian, therefore, his parent’s aren’t particularly fond of him dating an American girl, making it even more difficult for us to see each other. They believe that since they had an arranged marriage and were unable to be in contact for the following three years immediately afterward, then what’s the big deal regarding him not communicating with me for a couple of months? This is the norm, right? :-/

There’s a big difference between getting involved with someone, establishing a relationship, and then moving away, and getting involved with someone who starts out hours and hours of travel away.

When you’re in a long distance relationship, it’s easy to fall in love with your image of the other person, and hard to get to know what the person is like on a daily basis. And then, if it goes well, one of you will have to move, and that puts an incredible amount of stress on the relationship.

A previous relationship was conducted between Sydney & Brisbane (in Australia) which is 1.5 hrs flying or 18 hours driving. We saw each other monthly, and it probably only lasted as long as it did because we saw each other so infrequently!

More than an hour and you are going to have to accept that it will be hard work, I certainly wouldn’t start a relationship like that again.