<p>This isn't really about college but I guess you could meet someone special there haha. To all of the heterosexuals, homosexuals and bisexuals who have been in a long term relationship, how often do you talk, see, and text your partner? Did you buy them anything for their birthday when you started dating? If you didn't, should you have? Did you say that you love him/her yet and how long were you guys dating for when you said it? I'll think of anything else to put on here</p>
<p>I’ve been avoiding relationships like the plague for a while now. But I am afraid i’m gonna find a girl I like when I start college. Or a girl is going to find me, and I won’t reject her. A relationship can be distracting for me personally. And I think others may agree that it is true.</p>
<p>But yeah, my last girl, who I met in college, I did take her out often and we went out to watch movies a lot, and eat ice cream and pizza and all that bf/gf stuff, we did talk and text everyday. I liked it but I didn’t like it at the same time, it’s hard to explain. I’ll try not to do that again this time.</p>
<p>I’ve been in two long term relationships. The last one was 5 years (freshman high school-sophomore year of college) and the current has been a little over a year and a half (sophomore year of college to senior year). </p>
<p>With both we talked all the time, texted, etc. With the first, we saw each other daily until college and then every weekend or every other weekend. With the current, we saw each other every day. We lived in the same dorm and then we moved in with each other in the summer and have lived together since. </p>
<p>The first said I love you the day we started dating. We were young and stupid lol. </p>
<p>The second one said it probably about a month after we started dating. He made a big elaborate plan out of it (which kept getting thwarted by a blizzard, trip to the ER for one of our best friends, an emotional break down by another friend, a bad night of studying, an announcement of his best friend’s deployment date- yes this really all happened in ONE night lol). </p>
<p>Of course we bought things for each other’s birthdays lol. The second one lucked out as he literally had a whole year until my birthday (we got together two days after my birthday). </p>
<p>You tend to talk/text/etc less as the relationship goes on. You don’t feel the need to constantly be in contact. On the rare occasion that bf and I are apart for any length of time, we game together rather than skype or anything.</p>
<p>My experience:</p>
<p>Talk everyday come hell or high water (although it’s perfectly fine if we’re out of sync with each other on some days) and I always buy them something for their birthday, valentine’s day, and christmas.</p>
<p>Probably said it about a month later after we started. Been dating for four years.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think long distance relationships work unless your married or engaged or very very srs</p>
<p>He said long-term, not long-distance.</p>
<p>whoops…</p>