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NOTHING can compare with the anticipation, the excitement, the intensity, drama; and oh yes, the passion of a long distance romance! Each time you see one another is like the first time you fell in love. Who wouldn't want to keep their romance forever new and forever fresh?

I enjoyed every moment of my two-year long distance relationship where I climbed to heady heights, and fell just as lowly when we had to part. It started first with long-distance phone calls. An hour turned into two, then an evening, until one night we were so heavy into each other's voices we talked into the wee hours, subject after subject, until we had passed the night together, talking. We stopped only because we both had to get up and go to work.

Those days, long distance was expensive. When the bill came at the end of the month, we had run up a bill well over $1000. When my now husband told his mother about the phone calls, she was so surprised, she practically fell off her chair in disbelief!

Our long distance romance consisted of meeting each other half-way, in the city of Syracuse, New York. By the time we finally ended this long-distance relationship, we had explored every nook and cranny of New York state. Meetings were heavenly, and partings "such sweet sorrow". The butterflies of anticipation always ended with a empty feeling at the bottom of my stomach.

I do not believe long distance relatinships are meant to last. Not if you are not yet married. Not even if you are married, but various people have proved me wrong. Long distance relationships are physically wearing on a person's body. They are mentally and emotionally exhausting as each parting is viewed as an abandonment of some sort. Not to mention extensive amounts of money spent in travel, hotels, food, and entertainment. At best, we are not so productive at work, always missing the person we are not with.

After two years, I decided that was the limit. Not because the relationship was not going well. It was, that was the problem. Several times he tried breaking off with me because coming to join me was not desirable, however feasible. It was a make or break deal with me. I game him a time frame and an ultimatum and was willing to live with the result. Luckily for me, the relationship was worthwhile enough for him to leave his country and get married in mine.

Long distance relationships are based on sacrifice. If it does work out, one of the partners will have to move, leave family and friends, jobs, and be happy at the

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