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Good luck to you on the relationship man. I can personally attest that Long Distance Relationships are incredibly difficult, but the payoff beats the pain you go through by a million. I started dating my girlfriend last July, and over a year later, we're still together. We love each other and to me that is the most important thing. In the almost 13 months we've been together we've had our ups and our downs, including a time where we were separated, but in all that time we have probably been together in person for about a month total.
In fact, I just sat in the airport crying this morning as she flew home after the best three weeks of my life. Today has been the toughest day of my life, but I know that she is going through the same; we're going through it together. Next year she is tentatively planning on moving from Michigan to Seattle to go to school. Two years after we met and a whirlwind relationship began, we will be together.
One thing that helps is to have something to look forward to. Three and a half years seems like forever, but knowing that there is a definite time frame is better than not knowing anything at all. Communicate all the time, whether it is email, instant messaging, phone, mailed letters, anything, just let them know your thinking of them.
I don't claim to be an expert at these types of relationships, but I hope this helped, and writing out some of my feelings has definitely helped me feel better today, knowing I'm 2000 miles away from my baby and not knowing exactly when I'll see her next.
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