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I was browsing Technorati under the IM tag and ran across an interesting site called 690miles.com. A clever name, so I clicked through.
The site is about “finding new ways to nurture love at a distance.” It is maintained by two love-struck geeks (Chris and Steph) who happen to live (you guessed it) 690 miles apart.
I thought I’d share it here, since IM is a commonly used tool for maintaining relationships over a distance.
Interesting!! Thanks for sharing!!
I have never being in a long distance relationship,but I know about some that at the end worked out just great.
Most people are scare,don’t trust…. and for those reason they won’t do it,but all relationships come with some risk involved.Good for them 🙂
Jeff wrote:I was browsing Technorati under the IM tag and ran across an interesting site called 690miles.com. A clever name, so I clicked through.The site is about “finding new ways to nurture love at a distance.” It is maintained by two love-struck geeks (Chris and Steph) who happen to live (you guessed it) 690 miles apart.
I thought I’d share it here, since IM is a commonly used tool for maintaining relationships over a distance.
Whoa Jeff…did you see where they are coming out with glasses that will glow when your partner (at a distance) picks it up…and puts it to their lips? As crazy as it sounds…I have a feeling that kind of techie thing is going to take off like wildfire. I’d love to know which companies are going to be first to market the stuff and buy some stock. There are a lot of people in long distance relationship or at least ones that are separated by distance during some portion of their relationship. I enjoyed the link…thanks for sharing. Love glasses..heh. 🙂
Love glasses — are those anything like beer goggles? :p
Yeah I saw something about the lover cups posted on Digital Inspiration (one of the blogs I follow). Seems like more of a curiosity to me, but maybe it’ll spawn a entire line of accessory items.
Heh, lover cups. What will be thought up next? I also saw vibrating motor as one of the features….all the fun of not being home with your special someone.
Yeah Jeff, I guess technology has a long way to go to satisfy the romantic side in me. Here’s a picture of the “love cup” …to me it looks more like something produced by Thermos (no disrespect to that fine company intended) than the romantic wine goblet I imagined.
*ahem* Wow, heheheh.
Well, if nothing else, coming from someone who has had a long distance relationship, it’s good to see that some folks are making the extra effort to help themselves and other folks out as well.
Course…when my little dealie bob was going on, it was more like 1,360 miles. *blink blink* Yeah…East coast. What is it with me and fellahs that live along the coast, right? *cackles* But that’s another story, looks around.
By the way… Steph’s page…is a geeks dream. Or maybe that’s just me. It’s purdy… *droolage*
I am in a long distant relationship right now! I live in Australia and my boyfriend lives in America. Yeah, I know…it’s quite a distance but we manage. He is saving up his money to come and visit me sometime. I’m really looking forward to it. I just don’t know how to tell my parents because they don’t like the idea of me dating boys online. They think that the internet is full of ‘bad’ people. I hope they understand in the end. I love him very much. ^_^
It gets difficult at times but we always manage okay. He really loves me so I’m sure everything will turn out nicely in the end! 🙂
I remember watching a show on tv where this young guy from the US flew into Australia to meet his online love. They’d been online friends for a couple of years and the relationship grew from there. Unfortunately he’d used up practically all his savings to get here and was stopped at customs as he had no visible means of support for his stay. Anyway to cut a long story short, they contacted his Aussie girlfriend who vouched for him and they went off together. Sad thing was that 3 days later he was back on a plane to the US, totally dejected as things had not gone the way they had hoped.
I felt so sorry for him as I imagine he’d saved for ages to get here and he didn’t even get to have a holiday to remember.
Guess that’s one of the pitfalls of an online relationship….you get all the good stuff and the fuzzy feelings (in part I think because you can’t actually be together) so the expectations are high when you finally meet. We all have faults and unfortunately those rarely surface until you actually spend time together. Not to say that online/distance relationships can’t work….just an observation.Oh if we had IMing back then . . . My husband had to work about 3 hours away for 7 months . . . He’d leave on Monday morning around 5, live there through the week and get home Friday around 9 (there was a time change). Then he’d be home for the weekend. It was tough, with two little kids and me teaching at nights. We emailed like crazy during the day – almost IM, but not quite as responsive and called when we could. This has the potential for keeping folks together even when work demands they not be; e.g. soldiers, truckers, engineers.
On a *beware* note though, a good friend met someone online – probably 690 miles apart (both married with school-aged kids), they met several times IRL, decided to divorce . . . she did . . . he didn’t . . . she’s now raising the kids on her own. Always keep your perspective whether you’re dating online or in town. Things are not always what they seem.
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