I’d wait. 18 months is nothing I haven’t done before. It’s only a matter of time until I have to leave the US for 12-18 months anyway, so I might as well take the everlasting love.
I’m trying to figure out where you people are seeing the Relationship Fairy having said there was a guarantee of a lifetime of happiness. The Relationship Fairy does not do fine print.
There is a guarantee of love and chemistry and great sex. Nothing more. Being in love does not guarantee that a relationship will work, in my experience. Once the 18-24 months is up, you two are gonna hafta see if you can make it work when you’re able to live near each other or together. Real life circumstances can certainly still intervene, despite the love.
I’m at the end (six days!) of an almost 10 month long LDR (with two months of being together preceding). It’s been hard and frustrating at times, but worth it. Doubling that amount of time apart would present even more challenges, I think, but again would be worth it.
I tend to spend quite a while single between girlfriends anyway, so it’s not like I’d be passing up all sorts of opportunity for other relationships/sex . . . at least none that I wouldn’t likely be missing/passing up anyway.
It sounds like the relationship is guaranteed to work, so why wouldn’t I take it? I’m single now, so it’s not like I’m any worse off in an LDR. And it’s what I would have done anyways, even if the fairy had never appeared.
And, apparently, if I find out that it’s not as good as I think, I can always end the relationship early and find someone else. I’m really at a loss to think of what the fairy could do to mess this up.
(Wait, I guess she could kill off the woman before we get to live together, so all the pining will amount to nothing. Still, “'Tis better to have loved and lost…”
I don’t see any guarantees it will work, and we all have different standards of just what relationships are worth it.
You’re right. But a guarantee of love and chemistry and great sex is already way beyond what most relationships start with. And having that kind of base is what lifetime relationships are built on.
If you know you’ll have that, it would be foolish not to go for it.
I went with other since that is what I’m currently doing. I met a great chick about a month ago and we’ve been talking since then with plans for her to come visit me but in the mean time I’m still dating and have been with one girl since then and gotten a couple of other numbers.
I see no reason to commit to someone who isn’t physically present and I wasn’t commuted to before they moved away. I don’t tell her about the other women but I assume she’s seeing other guys as well.
I like your style, sir. Well said.
I’d go for it, then grab the Relationship Fairy, shove her in the microwave, set the power level to maximum, and the timer for 9999 minutes, sit back and watch the fun
Would she get all 'splodey?, is she wearing metal jewelry that would emit nice little sparks, how long before she becomes the Charcoal Briquet Fairy?
the only drawback is if she escapes, we’d have to deal with the Irradiated Fairy…
Sure, she’s being a jerk, but that’s no reason to murder her. Maybe she’s single and bitter about her job.
Sounds like you’re taking the side of the fairy folk, look, if she hates her job, just do what everyone else that hates their job does, do a really half-assed job, or as Homer put it…
“Strike?!, if you don’t like your job, you don’t strike, you just go in every day and do it reeeeealy half-assed, that’s the American Way!”
this fairy is deliberately causing conflict/strife for her own amusement, she’s causing more problems than she solves (assuming she solves them at all…), at the very least, she needs to seek other opportunities for employment, I hear that they’re hiring at the Keebler Hollow Tree confection production facility…
I’m in month 26 of that very situation, so obviously I said yes.
How far apart are you, and how often do you see one another?
Been there, done that, eventually married him, and have no hard feelings for the RF. She’s just misunderstood.
I’ve spent twice that much time in a going-nowhere, doomed relationship, so I don’t see any reason not to stick it out and make one work if I had the warranty.
12 months for me. Agree that it’s worth it.
I’m in the minority here. I’d take a skip. How do I know there isn’t someone who would be just as great who lives three blocks away? And 18-24 months of having great sex every couple of months and spending the rest pining?! No way. I’d casually stay in touch. If neither of us is attached at the end of the two years, maybe.
Yeah, +1. I just can’t see how, beyond terminal illness, old age, low income, or separation anxiety this isn’t a great deal. Don’t hate on the fairy!
The OP has pretty much describe my feelings toward my partner . . . and he ***IS ***the Relationship Fairy.
Yeah, even a 2-year wait would be worth it. It’s not like I’m gonna find someone else like him in that time.
The problem is that this could be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the other person knows this is how you feel, don’t assume they’re still available in 18-24 months.