WORLD INFORMATIONS: People who closed the distance, tell me your stories!!! Hi all, longtime lurker here. I'm currently in an LDR as of the last 9 months, I'm 20 (F/AUS), he's 23 (M/USA) , I visited him for the first time when I was travelling for a Uni trip late last year, we fell in love over 4 days in LA. Been going strong for 9 months now, he recently came to visit for a month and our love is only stronger, I'll be visiting again for two months starting in December. I've really been feeling the distance the last month, and I've unfortunately become a little depressed and anxious about it. Longing is never something I understood before meeting him, but now its this constant weight on my chest. He came to visit in July and now he feels more faraway then ever, we still talk everyday and are still so in love, but eventually getting to live with him feels impossible as the working visa option for my kind of work in America is a nightmare, and since I would be looking into freelance work, it feels impossible unless I won the green card lottery. It still feels scary and ridiculous to me that the green card process takes such a long time, because even if we got married tomorrow, I would still have to wait a minimum 6 months to be able to move to the states and work/live with him. I've never loved anyone the way I love him, and vice versa, we've both promised to work through all this and wait for each other, but the pain of the distance can become overwhelming and has left me emotionally wrecked as of late. The good news is I'll be visiting for 2 months over Christmas, I can't wait until then, but the theres a big part of me that asks "What comes after?", I'm scared of how bad it will hurt to say "Goodbye, for now." again. I just need to know that all the waiting will be worth it, that LDR can, and does work. Please share your uplifting stories with me, I want to hear every detail! How you met, how you worked during the distance, and how you closed the gap, and how life is now. TLDR: Missing him more then anything, please share your stories and tell me it'll work out!!! Reading stories on this subreddit gives me a lot of hope, thank you all for sharing your stories with me.