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I Draw What It’s Like To Be In A Long Distance Relationship

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My boyfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for 3 years now.

I decided to capture what it’s like to be in a long distance relationship for us through drawings. My style of illustration was inspired by British Illustrator Philippa Rice’s comic “Soppy”.

Being in love with someone who is far away can be tough. But when you know that you are with the one, even the toughest times are worth it. Being in a long distance relationship means…

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Viola Wang

Traveller. Foodie. Dancer. Life Enthusiast. Follow my blog stylishwanderers.com for some of my adventures!

Traveller. Foodie. Dancer. Life Enthusiast. Follow my blog stylishwanderers.com for some of my adventures!

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DariaB 8 years ago

My boyfriend (Korean) and I (Croatian) spent 2 years in a long distance relationship. Now we've been living together in Seoul for over 5 years. It works if you turn your dreams into actual plans. ^_-

48points

SeEunAhn 8 years ago

Me (Korean-Korea) and My boyfriend (Taiwanese-USA) have been dating 6 years by this way. haha I'm surprised that it is absolutely same!!!! We are planing to marry next year. This drawing really cheers us up! :)

16points

Ash 8 years ago

Jiayou!:)

1point

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NadiaSoori(Rosleen) 8 years ago

This nearly made me cry! It's so damned true. Countdown currently at 27 days...

8points

NikaRoxetteProia 8 years ago

I am from Croatia and my boyfriend is from Poland, and that was hard time for us to be separated, coming to me and going back to Poland..so, we decided to live together in United Kingdom..i think that nobody is happy more than we are :) Never give up from real love :)

5points

GozMaculele 8 years ago

That was so true and reminiscent of the two most romantically excruciating years of my life. Maurice & Sâmira 2008 - 2009

5points

ErnestoHernandezBenitez 8 years ago

I am in a long distance relationship... not that long (i live in Havana and she lives in another cuban city), but transport and communication in my country aren't the best (pretty bad, actually), so we cannot do skype, 1 hour of talk costs us almost one day of work... We can, sometimes, share pictures or short videos via email, at work, though.... And as we live in the same country, we manage to meet once or twice a month...

4points

YasMina 8 years ago

I have just started a long distance relationship, the time base is very recent though, we only know each other for 2 months...but it feels like years. Trying to work the best way possible to master this long term relationship obstacles.

4points

MarikaStanway 8 years ago

I've tried the long distance one.. It was the most miserable time in my life. We live together in his country now, have done for the last 12 years. They've been the happiest years of my life :) I do sometimes miss my own country and my my family, of course. But I love it here and we are still like newly weds. My best decision ever to move over.

4points

NunoAlmeida 8 years ago

This is the only one of these types of posts that I've seen which I feel really does show how it is to be in this situation. Made me smile

4points

BerryFeng 8 years ago

I had two long distance relationships and they are all failed. I can't imagine what I am loving for if nobody stands by me.

3points

KaremGarcia-Loera 8 years ago

I miss Matt. This post hit every one of the things i experience.

3points

AgnieszkaRola 8 years ago

My boyfriend is Armenian, I'm from Poland, first month has just passed. I hope we will manage. :)

3points

NearIsBae 8 years ago

Ah this post just reminds me of Ed Sheeran's song Photograph which is about a long distance relationship. <3

3points

Anita Cuellar 8 years ago

At least it's so much easier having along distance relationship now. When my husband and I forst started dating we had a long distance relationship and would call on the phone and write love letters. This was back in the 90s. We had no internet, cellphones, computers, apps... back then that would help us. Now a days it's easier to keep in touch.

2points

GemmaDavies 8 years ago

My boyfriend lives in Wisconsin, USA and I live in England. We've been together for 3 years now, and we both love these pictures! They are so true!! ^_^ We made this Meme together the last time he was in England! :D B***h-Plea...NE-png.jpg

2points

KatDeBosschere 8 years ago

Me and my bf have been together for 3years now. And this is exactly how it goes (except for the plane is a 6hour train ride)! Love the art style.

2points

EsraYasser 8 years ago

My relation too but we both live in 1 country and I travel every 4 and when I'm back we still can't meet cause of problems in family :'(

2points

SharanyaMunsi 8 years ago

I have been in a long distance for 2 years now and it is not always a glossy picture. I miss him so does he but there at times is an awkwardness in the initial stages because virtually we were in level 10 of relationship but in reality it was still at level 5.

2points

Pemberton 8 years ago

Getting the correct date of birthdays can be difficult when living at the other side of the earth, due to time difference. "Happy birthday!" "Well, it was yesterday / it's tomorrow". I keep missing my family's birthdays :(

2points

CpMooN 8 years ago

This describes me and my hb when I had to work in Singapore for few months :D

2points

g0atlady 8 years ago

I experience this exact same thing with my partner! I am surprised how accurate and moving this is. 4yrs so far, between UK and USA. Very difficult with the time zone issues, but the time we spend together is so much more precious and our mental bond is super strong. This is the strongest kind of love! Countdown at 55 days <3

1point

Gothilocks 8 years ago

This goes for internet friendships as well as long distance relationships!

1point

MirceaOprea 8 years ago

Me (Romanian) and my girlfriend( American) are dating for 8 months now and these drawings fit perfectly to us. Even the part when she was waiting for him in the airport in the winter. The good part is that we will be together in 3 months and we`ll have a normal relationship! :) Thanks for the drawings! I saved them!

1point

PastelUnicorn 8 years ago

Awww! This is so cute!

1point

MariaJoãoAlmeida 8 years ago

<3 lovely

1point

Hippo 8 years ago

:)

1point

Juilet Peter 3 years ago

My loyalty to dr john soco at [drjohnsoco @ gmail. com] will ever remain in my heart for the peace he has brought back to my marriage, i am a man who always busy with my JOB, which i really don,t enough time with my family and my wife always complain about it and i tried to make her understand the situation but she got angry and left to stay on her own and move on with her life, the most painful thing is that she left the 4 years old daughter. i went to her several times to bring her back home all she could do is to filed for divorce which i don,t want that to happen I love her and i want my child to be taken good care of. but Thank God for using Dr John Soco , to save my home with peace within 7 days of his spiritual intervention that change her mind about the divorce.

0points

Juilet Peter 3 years ago

My loyalty to dr john soco at [drjohnsoco@gmail.com] or whatsapp him on +1 (706) 871-4571 , will ever remain in my heart for the peace he has brought back to my marriage, i am a man who always busy with my JOB, which i really don,t enough time with my family and my wife always complain about it and i tried to make her understand the situation but she got angry and left to stay on her own and move on with her life, the most painful thing is that she left the 4 years old daughter. i went to her several times to bring her back home all she could do is to filed for divorce which i don,t want that to happen I love her and i want my child to be taken good care of. but Thank God for using Dr John Soco , to save my home with peace within 7 days of his spiritual intervention that change her mind about the divorce.

0points

SaberVoice 5 years ago

This is beautiful!! I feel the exact same thing because I also live in a long distance relationship with a girl from Serbia while I live in Canada! We talk a lot since we meet a few weeks ago and I'm starting to look for tickets to go visit her in Serbia! I hope to anybody in a long distance relationship with someone to be happy together!!

0points

Tanatsha Mongluang 5 years ago

Me (Thai) and my fluffy is Australian. This is our first meet trip for a week. As I'm happier than I ever be, so I hope he is too. Tomorrow he'll fly back, I missed him already! I have one big goal for myself that I'm going to see him again in October 2019. I'm excited already!

0points

margret mat 6 years ago

Been in a long distance relationship for over a year now and surely I can relate to these things. Also, the illustrations are great. Hope to see more such amazing content from you. There are some things that can be done on a long distance relationship you can check it here https://pendreambox.com/long-distance-date-ideas/

0points

Anderson Duarte 7 years ago

One of the worst things: "Poor internet connection drives you insane on the regular." Haha! My girl is Polish (she lives in London) and I am Brazilian (living in Brazil). It's really hard to this distance. I want live with her, but it's hard to safe money nowadays, but little by little I hope to achieve this goal. It's funny, many people live together for long time and at the same time they seem too far between them. We are too far in the space but we feel like we are too close. Sometimes I just want her presence next to me, even without say any word. A hug would be enough.

0points

Ash Rowley 7 years ago

Me(uk) and my girlfriend (Indonesia) have been together 1 year and couple of months. It's been beautiful. I've been to see her and it's exactly like the drawings. We talk to each other like we're a married couple. It's the realistic way of finding love bcus if that person loves you through all that distance then there's nothing stopping.. I wasn't expecting that..

0points

Driss Moumni 7 years ago

I have tears. We can all relates to all of these pictures. Spot on!

0points

Stacey Wellington 7 years ago

Hnnng, this is so real it hurts, even though my "long distance" weren't even that far away - as in, same country and everything (England)! It was mostly the money that was the issue as well as the distance and time and stuff but still. I feel this. Such a cute comic <3 Glad more people understand that long distance does not equal "fake" relationship anymore!

0points

Corey May Lace 8 years ago

My boyfriend (Canada) and me (America) keep talking about making plans but we can't :(

0points

Anya Spyker 8 years ago

Saddest part of my long distance relationship is that my gf and I live 3 miles apart, but we go to different schools, I've only gotten to see her 3 times this year.

0points

LucaGerda-frompankawithlove 8 years ago

I am a lucky girl. I've been together with my boyfriend for more than 2 years now, the first year was a long distance relationship (Sweden-Hungary), but we always knew we wanted to be together, so he just moved to Hungary until I finish university... He's been here for 15 months, and I can't possibly feel luckier to have a man caring so much <3

0points

XxMashMadnessxX 8 years ago

This is perfect.

0points

JiazheLi 8 years ago

I'm in Canada while she is in China. Only two months before I go back and see her, but it is meaningless now...

0points

MiaBander 8 years ago

Makes me think of my boyfriend :(

0points

SukanyaPruksakasemsuk 8 years ago

Thanks Viola for doing this and its come to me as a gift to proof the surviving long tern relationship. You can do this for 3 years, why not us. but its really tough for both of us to say I miss you, Me too everyday til we meet next time

0points

Claudia 8 years ago

That was so true

0points

SukanyaPruksakasemsuk 8 years ago

Yes, exactly what's happening with me now. I want to fly to him and see him now. But will have to wait for another 6 weeks for him to come to me and 10 weeks for me to come to him

0points

BerryFeng 8 years ago

Love this story and love your illustration.

0points

Zeal 8 years ago

I had done a lot but he didn't

0points

MariaAméliaAlencar 8 years ago

SO ACCURATE I CAN'T EVEN

0points

StefanGreppler 8 years ago

;-)

0points

IvonePomarolle 8 years ago

What about jealous hehe

0points

DariaB 8 years ago

The only jealousy you feel is when seeing couples together, because your partner is far away. Yep, trust. ☻

4points

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Kari M 8 years ago

watch catfish see ya..

-1point

DariaB 8 years ago

My boyfriend (Korean) and I (Croatian) spent 2 years in a long distance relationship. Now we've been living together in Seoul for over 5 years. It works if you turn your dreams into actual plans. ^_-

48points

SeEunAhn 8 years ago

Me (Korean-Korea) and My boyfriend (Taiwanese-USA) have been dating 6 years by this way. haha I'm surprised that it is absolutely same!!!! We are planing to marry next year. This drawing really cheers us up! :)

16points

Ash 8 years ago

Jiayou!:)

1point

Load More Replies...

NadiaSoori(Rosleen) 8 years ago

This nearly made me cry! It's so damned true. Countdown currently at 27 days...

8points

NikaRoxetteProia 8 years ago

I am from Croatia and my boyfriend is from Poland, and that was hard time for us to be separated, coming to me and going back to Poland..so, we decided to live together in United Kingdom..i think that nobody is happy more than we are :) Never give up from real love :)

5points

GozMaculele 8 years ago

That was so true and reminiscent of the two most romantically excruciating years of my life. Maurice & Sâmira 2008 - 2009

5points

ErnestoHernandezBenitez 8 years ago

I am in a long distance relationship... not that long (i live in Havana and she lives in another cuban city), but transport and communication in my country aren't the best (pretty bad, actually), so we cannot do skype, 1 hour of talk costs us almost one day of work... We can, sometimes, share pictures or short videos via email, at work, though.... And as we live in the same country, we manage to meet once or twice a month...

4points

YasMina 8 years ago

I have just started a long distance relationship, the time base is very recent though, we only know each other for 2 months...but it feels like years. Trying to work the best way possible to master this long term relationship obstacles.

4points

MarikaStanway 8 years ago

I've tried the long distance one.. It was the most miserable time in my life. We live together in his country now, have done for the last 12 years. They've been the happiest years of my life :) I do sometimes miss my own country and my my family, of course. But I love it here and we are still like newly weds. My best decision ever to move over.

4points

NunoAlmeida 8 years ago

This is the only one of these types of posts that I've seen which I feel really does show how it is to be in this situation. Made me smile

4points

BerryFeng 8 years ago

I had two long distance relationships and they are all failed. I can't imagine what I am loving for if nobody stands by me.

3points

KaremGarcia-Loera 8 years ago

I miss Matt. This post hit every one of the things i experience.

3points

AgnieszkaRola 8 years ago

My boyfriend is Armenian, I'm from Poland, first month has just passed. I hope we will manage. :)

3points

NearIsBae 8 years ago

Ah this post just reminds me of Ed Sheeran's song Photograph which is about a long distance relationship. <3

3points

Anita Cuellar 8 years ago

At least it's so much easier having along distance relationship now. When my husband and I forst started dating we had a long distance relationship and would call on the phone and write love letters. This was back in the 90s. We had no internet, cellphones, computers, apps... back then that would help us. Now a days it's easier to keep in touch.

2points

GemmaDavies 8 years ago

My boyfriend lives in Wisconsin, USA and I live in England. We've been together for 3 years now, and we both love these pictures! They are so true!! ^_^ We made this Meme together the last time he was in England! :D B***h-Plea...NE-png.jpg

2points

KatDeBosschere 8 years ago

Me and my bf have been together for 3years now. And this is exactly how it goes (except for the plane is a 6hour train ride)! Love the art style.

2points

EsraYasser 8 years ago

My relation too but we both live in 1 country and I travel every 4 and when I'm back we still can't meet cause of problems in family :'(

2points

SharanyaMunsi 8 years ago

I have been in a long distance for 2 years now and it is not always a glossy picture. I miss him so does he but there at times is an awkwardness in the initial stages because virtually we were in level 10 of relationship but in reality it was still at level 5.

2points

Pemberton 8 years ago

Getting the correct date of birthdays can be difficult when living at the other side of the earth, due to time difference. "Happy birthday!" "Well, it was yesterday / it's tomorrow". I keep missing my family's birthdays :(

2points

CpMooN 8 years ago

This describes me and my hb when I had to work in Singapore for few months :D

2points

g0atlady 8 years ago

I experience this exact same thing with my partner! I am surprised how accurate and moving this is. 4yrs so far, between UK and USA. Very difficult with the time zone issues, but the time we spend together is so much more precious and our mental bond is super strong. This is the strongest kind of love! Countdown at 55 days <3

1point

Gothilocks 8 years ago

This goes for internet friendships as well as long distance relationships!

1point

MirceaOprea 8 years ago

Me (Romanian) and my girlfriend( American) are dating for 8 months now and these drawings fit perfectly to us. Even the part when she was waiting for him in the airport in the winter. The good part is that we will be together in 3 months and we`ll have a normal relationship! :) Thanks for the drawings! I saved them!

1point

PastelUnicorn 8 years ago

Awww! This is so cute!

1point

MariaJoãoAlmeida 8 years ago

<3 lovely

1point

Hippo 8 years ago

:)

1point

Juilet Peter 3 years ago

My loyalty to dr john soco at [drjohnsoco @ gmail. com] will ever remain in my heart for the peace he has brought back to my marriage, i am a man who always busy with my JOB, which i really don,t enough time with my family and my wife always complain about it and i tried to make her understand the situation but she got angry and left to stay on her own and move on with her life, the most painful thing is that she left the 4 years old daughter. i went to her several times to bring her back home all she could do is to filed for divorce which i don,t want that to happen I love her and i want my child to be taken good care of. but Thank God for using Dr John Soco , to save my home with peace within 7 days of his spiritual intervention that change her mind about the divorce.

0points

Juilet Peter 3 years ago

My loyalty to dr john soco at [drjohnsoco@gmail.com] or whatsapp him on +1 (706) 871-4571 , will ever remain in my heart for the peace he has brought back to my marriage, i am a man who always busy with my JOB, which i really don,t enough time with my family and my wife always complain about it and i tried to make her understand the situation but she got angry and left to stay on her own and move on with her life, the most painful thing is that she left the 4 years old daughter. i went to her several times to bring her back home all she could do is to filed for divorce which i don,t want that to happen I love her and i want my child to be taken good care of. but Thank God for using Dr John Soco , to save my home with peace within 7 days of his spiritual intervention that change her mind about the divorce.

0points

SaberVoice 5 years ago

This is beautiful!! I feel the exact same thing because I also live in a long distance relationship with a girl from Serbia while I live in Canada! We talk a lot since we meet a few weeks ago and I'm starting to look for tickets to go visit her in Serbia! I hope to anybody in a long distance relationship with someone to be happy together!!

0points

Tanatsha Mongluang 5 years ago

Me (Thai) and my fluffy is Australian. This is our first meet trip for a week. As I'm happier than I ever be, so I hope he is too. Tomorrow he'll fly back, I missed him already! I have one big goal for myself that I'm going to see him again in October 2019. I'm excited already!

0points

margret mat 6 years ago

Been in a long distance relationship for over a year now and surely I can relate to these things. Also, the illustrations are great. Hope to see more such amazing content from you. There are some things that can be done on a long distance relationship you can check it here https://pendreambox.com/long-distance-date-ideas/

0points

Anderson Duarte 7 years ago

One of the worst things: "Poor internet connection drives you insane on the regular." Haha! My girl is Polish (she lives in London) and I am Brazilian (living in Brazil). It's really hard to this distance. I want live with her, but it's hard to safe money nowadays, but little by little I hope to achieve this goal. It's funny, many people live together for long time and at the same time they seem too far between them. We are too far in the space but we feel like we are too close. Sometimes I just want her presence next to me, even without say any word. A hug would be enough.

0points

Ash Rowley 7 years ago

Me(uk) and my girlfriend (Indonesia) have been together 1 year and couple of months. It's been beautiful. I've been to see her and it's exactly like the drawings. We talk to each other like we're a married couple. It's the realistic way of finding love bcus if that person loves you through all that distance then there's nothing stopping.. I wasn't expecting that..

0points

Driss Moumni 7 years ago

I have tears. We can all relates to all of these pictures. Spot on!

0points

Stacey Wellington 7 years ago

Hnnng, this is so real it hurts, even though my "long distance" weren't even that far away - as in, same country and everything (England)! It was mostly the money that was the issue as well as the distance and time and stuff but still. I feel this. Such a cute comic <3 Glad more people understand that long distance does not equal "fake" relationship anymore!

0points

Corey May Lace 8 years ago

My boyfriend (Canada) and me (America) keep talking about making plans but we can't :(

0points

Anya Spyker 8 years ago

Saddest part of my long distance relationship is that my gf and I live 3 miles apart, but we go to different schools, I've only gotten to see her 3 times this year.

0points

LucaGerda-frompankawithlove 8 years ago

I am a lucky girl. I've been together with my boyfriend for more than 2 years now, the first year was a long distance relationship (Sweden-Hungary), but we always knew we wanted to be together, so he just moved to Hungary until I finish university... He's been here for 15 months, and I can't possibly feel luckier to have a man caring so much <3

0points

XxMashMadnessxX 8 years ago

This is perfect.

0points

JiazheLi 8 years ago

I'm in Canada while she is in China. Only two months before I go back and see her, but it is meaningless now...

0points

MiaBander 8 years ago

Makes me think of my boyfriend :(

0points

SukanyaPruksakasemsuk 8 years ago

Thanks Viola for doing this and its come to me as a gift to proof the surviving long tern relationship. You can do this for 3 years, why not us. but its really tough for both of us to say I miss you, Me too everyday til we meet next time

0points

Claudia 8 years ago

That was so true

0points

SukanyaPruksakasemsuk 8 years ago

Yes, exactly what's happening with me now. I want to fly to him and see him now. But will have to wait for another 6 weeks for him to come to me and 10 weeks for me to come to him

0points

BerryFeng 8 years ago

Love this story and love your illustration.

0points

Zeal 8 years ago

I had done a lot but he didn't

0points

MariaAméliaAlencar 8 years ago

SO ACCURATE I CAN'T EVEN

0points

StefanGreppler 8 years ago

;-)

0points

IvonePomarolle 8 years ago

What about jealous hehe

0points

DariaB 8 years ago

The only jealousy you feel is when seeing couples together, because your partner is far away. Yep, trust. ☻

4points

Load More Replies...

Kari M 8 years ago

watch catfish see ya..

-1point

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