I’ve never been to Boom Chicago, but it’s getting rave reviews. It’s been on one of the most expensive squares in the city for three years running, so they must be doing something right!
Someone who’s a little unsure about going public before she and I have actually met IRL … I’m allowed to drop a hint or two; this is another Doper romance, and it’s the George Sanders-like suavity of my English accent that clinched the deal …
The Plain People of the Straight Dope: This would be some other George Sanders, who comes from Liverpool, then, would it, Steve?
Hey. I can do suave. And Scouse is still an English accent, right?
Oh, and **Shayna, ** I did take a peek at your sites. They are very handy, and I didn’t see anything inaccurate there, either. (Disclaimer: IANAL, but if you’re paying attention, you knew that already. I also don’t do much family-based immigration stuff, so anyone who’s survived the fiance visa process recently is probably at least as knowledgeable about it as I am.)
I would add a link, though, to the State Dept. Foreign Affairs Manual’s handy-dandy list of relevant available documents and where to get them in countries around the world:
I can’t believe that on the SDMB someone has said that LDRs aren’t worth the trouble. You only have to have a look around at all of the engagement/marriage/baby/moved to be with SO threads. Look above, and add myself and Weirddave, iampunha and fizzestothetop, MsRobyn and Airman Doors, lno and Elenfair, Verrain and True Pisces, and many others.
We were unfortunate in that we had to deal with US Immigration. So many of you don’t have that issue. Thank your deity of choice for that, every single day.
Yes. She was living in Sacrameto and I in Los Angeles. (about 8 hours by car).
Been with irishfella 20 months now. At our closest we are a 3 hour drive apart, furthest away is Dublin to the north of Scotland.
Been that way since the beginning…actually the first month of our relationship I was backpacking around Eastern Europe without him!
I want to marry this guy (the feeling is mutual, so I’m told) and he is coming to Dublin in September, pretty much because I’m here.
We text each other 5 or 6 times a day, email 3 or 4 times a week and phone once a week.
It works out.
The longer we’re together the tougher the time apart is. I’ve never been as happy as I am now, largely because of him.
The secret is trust. I never have to worry about where he is or who he’s with, because I trust him. He feels the same about me.
I would never put our relationship in jeopardy, and neither would he.
We have boundaries of what is and isn’t ok, and we stick to them.
I don’t need to have him beside me every minute of the day to know that he loves me as much as I love him.
The times together make the times apart well worth it.
Go for it.