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I met my first love, who was my pen friends brother, when I stayed with her in Canada a summer, many many years ago. I was only 17, and unfortunately it was too great a distance at such a young age. I did think my heart was going to break when I realised it wasn't going to work out. He was such a lovely sweet guy that 23 years later and I still think wistfully of him and what might have been.

Many years ago when I was a student I had a long distance relationship. We had a couple of intense weekends together then it fizzled out. I guess it wasn't meant to be.

I had a long-distance romance, again leading on from a holiday fling. He was an incredibly handsome French fireman - so handsome I was, "Me? Seriously?"! We both knew it wouldn't...well, couldn't lead to anything long term, but I had many lovely weekends in Paris, and he came and stayed with me in Glasgow too. We managed to see each other every month or six weeks. The thing that was so different to him compared to British men was his exquisite manners, and his friends and family were the same. In the end, we both realised we couldn't afford to keep going back and forth, and I'd just bought my first flat; he had his career - it simply wasn't meant to be, so after a year we reluctantly agreed it really couldn't go any further without one of us getting badly hurt. This was about 18 years ago, and I hadn't thought of him for quite some time until the horrendous Paris terrorist attacks. I thought of him fondly then, and he'll always be a lovely memory, as I hope I am for him.

I had a boyfriend that was a soldier serving in Iraq, it was hard, all the worry, but the sexual tension build up was great, longing for when he returned home from duty.

I met my girlfriend via a blind date ,we hit it off ,fell in love and every night i travelled 17 miles to her parents house to take her out ,i dont drive so used the train or bus ,i dont know how many times i fell asleep on the bus and missed my stop,so in the end we got married ,she moved to my hometown and we have been happy ever since ,we now have 2 children and 2 grandchildren and life could not be better

I met DH when I was on holiday. He was meant to be a weekend fling, but we ended up dating long-distance for 18 months, meeting up for weekends in his city, mine, or somewhere inbetween, before I moved over to live with him. We've been together over 12 years now and living in the UK.

I lived in Spain for six months. My then boyfriend cheated on me so I guess not too well...

My long distance romance doesn't start with a holiday romance. I met a guy online when I was around 17 for years and years we talked online exchanged numbers and sent thousands of text messages a month to each other. I was living just outside London and he lived in derby. For 10 years we were friends talking nearly everyday till on day about 6 years ago now we decided to meet up. He came down to London and we met in St James park and had a picnic together. It was lovely. 6 years later we are about to celebrate our first wedding anniversary and we are expecting our first child.

I had a relationship with a soldier which went fine by letter (he was posted overseas soon after we met) but quickly fizzled out once he returned to the UK and we found we didn't have that much in common.

I met my husband 7.5 years ago when I came to England, from New Zealand, to be bridesmaid for my best friend at her wedding! We had a long-distance relationship for 2.5 years. It was hard but it was the best at that time. We had both ended our first marriages and my son was only 7. He knew nothing of our relationship until we knew we were serious about each other. After 1 year of meeting the two of us met half way - in Hong Kong for 9 days! We never looked back - coming up to our 3rd Wedding Anniversary!

Similarly to FoxInABox, I had a long distance relationship post a holiday romance. We met a few times but he was anxious to proceed at a quicker pace than I wanted - eg suggesting packing in work, relocating to where I lived, even moving in with me. It was all too much for me and I was better off financially than him and worried that he might be trying to take advantage of this.

My only long distance love was the result of a holiday romance, we ended up meeting up a few times, but remained friends for a few years.