Long-Distance Relationships

I see people complaining about how horrible it is to live apart from their significant other for so long, and it kinda bothers me. I mean, me and Chance were apart damn near our entire relationship. We got together in high school, in Feburary of 04. So we were together then, but only in school. Then he got grounded that summer and we didn't see each other for a month (almost didn't get to talk to each other). Then he was away the following school year, going to school in Corsicana, and we saw each other on weekends, but only if his parents let him, so we didn't see each other often. Then, my first semester at college I was at Sam and he was at Corsicana, which put us farther apart, and the situation with his parents was still the same. I was kind of miserable, so i transferred schools and we spent a semester together. The next semester he was working in the oilfield or something (I forget), then he went to Mississippi at some point.I'm getting my timeline a bit crossed or something, but the point is we spent a lot of time apart. Almost the whole time he was in Miss. we were apart. When I finished Navarro and went to Sam, he went to Killeen and we were apart AGAIN. The beginning of 07 (after having a fight, nearly splitting up, getting pregnant, and having an affair) we ended up together in May-ish, cuz we spent the summer together, and we were together through the birth of Shayla, and Chance got his job at Wal-Mart, and the following summer I moved down to the Woodlands to get a job (which I did), and then we spent 16 months apart because I was working down there and he was working up here because we needed the money. When I finally got to move up here, in the beginning of 2011, I was working a new job, almost 40 hours a week, and we spent almost no time together, despite living together. We didn't really get to spend time together until I quit my job in August, which was both a good and bad thing.  We still need the money, but i'm really valuing the time together that we are finally getting. I just want to be like, "you people don't know what it's like to not be with your man constantly, lol. To not be with him every day. Its horrible. It sucks so bad. We spent nearly 6 months apart when he was in Mississippi. That was miserable in itself.

But the good side to all this just proves long-distance relationships can work out. Just push through it, talk out your problems, and you'll make it. Have faith and trust in each other. You'll make it.