They are difficult and rarely last. Since this is a football site and not a personal relationship site I'll swing it back into football terms
Loads of people have long distance relationships with their football teams, they keep in touch by phone, email and the web, they sometimes go and see their love normally not as often as they would like they go sometimes half way around the world for them absense really does make the heart grow fonder and they will always fondly remember their last visit.
jen