- My fiancé travels for work, and I work at a distance, so we are in a long distance relationship.
- To prioritize our relationship, I travel wherever it is and I work from there.
- Our flexible jobs make our relationship possible.
My fiancé and me met on Bumble In September 2021. She lived in Columbus, Ohio, and I live in Pennsylvania.
When we met in person for the first time, she flew to Atlanta de Columbus, where I visited the family. I was with my family for a week and I was work out.
She stole a Friday evening and I got it at the hotel the next day. On our first appointmentWe went to Helen, GA, and we had a wonderful moment. The next day, she returned home.
The following weekend was the weekend of the Labor Day. I planned to go back to Lancaster on Sunday, but she asked me if I could go to Columbus instead and pass Labor festival With her. Although I was not gone on Tuesday after the Labor Day, I only had meetings and I could bring them back to the road to the house.
It was the beginning of our only long distance relationship. My now engaged to work for work, so we had to be creative by creating something special.
We knew that if we wanted it to work, we had that our work arrangements work for us. Since I had the most flexibility as a remote workerI decided to travel wherever she worked to spend time together and build our relationship.
Our relationship has become a story written in many adventures
Since this decision, we have gone to many places. One of the most memorable was a two -week stay in Miami in February 2023. I flew up for Miami for the first time and stayed with her at the hotel. During the day, we both worked, but in the evening and the weekend, we would explore. Trips to the beach at Miami beach To take advantage of local restaurants, we appreciated every minute in the south of Florida.
In April 2023, we spent a week together in California. One day, she had to go to different customer sites. I could attend my Work telephone conferences On the road.
One of our memorable stops was one night in Monterey. We went to the Aquarium of Monterey Bay and had lunch at the Fish Hopper, where it is the best bloody Mary that I have ever had.
The same year, in September, I joined it in Phoenix. I was able to visit the Tall canyon for the first time. It was the most fantastic experience I had to date. While I was looking through the canyon, I was impressed by its beauty and the luck that I was enjoying one of the wonders of the world with my now engaged – all because of our work arrangement.
In 2024, we spent all January in an airbnb in Rincon, Puerto Rico. As her work is seasonal, she left and I worked at a distance during the day. We enjoyed everything Rincon had to offer.
Entering the long distance relationship was the best decision of my life
The coordination of our schedules was not complicated. In the rare luck that I owed travel for workI just adjusted my trip to the place where she was at a time that worked for me but always gave us a lot of time together. It was a communication and coordination lesson.
As a rule, a long distance relationship would be an obstacle. But my distant status and his work trips were reasons why our relationship prospered.
In the end, if I wanted our relationship to work, I had to see our work arrangement as an opportunity to enjoy the company of the other and spend time together do fun things.