I’ve been playing role-playing games for years. I started playing them because it was fun and a great way for me to practice my social skills since I was too scared to talk to anyone IRL. That’s how I met Richard. I enjoyed playing with him because he was very polite. Which is…
Dear Mind Over Miles, My partner decided that he wanted to be the one to make the move across the globe (From USA to Australia). So far its been a whole lot of research, paper work, saving and legal stuff. Out of the two of us, I’m the positive one and unfortunately at…
Dear Mind Over Miles, We had been friends for years before but something was different and I went for it. I have also just started a job in commercial real estate, which will take about 2 years to really get things going. I’m working with my dad and can see potential greatness in…
Love hurts but young, naive love can hurt 5 times as much. But with the pain of lost love comes a lot of life lessons and growing up as a person. It was the summer I remember most and the summer I wish I could forget. I was young and searching for someone…
Boy meets girl. Boys asks girl out. The end. Our story was an ordinary one. In fact, it was too ordinary. That’s why I should have known. Dan and I were the perfect teenage couple. We did everything together. We played our favorite online game together, we planned after school activities together and…
Dear Mind over Miles, Hi, I’m currently in my 5th month of a LDR. The first weeks were easy and he made so much effort when he went back home, but this has gradually decreased. My bf says that this is because the internet connection is awful- which in fairness- it is, in…
A Story of the Importance of Love Languages in a LDR I was sitting in my therapist’s living room on a quiet afternoon when I thought about breaking up with my LDR of two years. Her house was built in the 1800’s, with built-in bookshelf’s full of texts on happiness, love, grief, and…
Dear Mind over Miles, My girlfriend and I got together for a couple months before she had to fly overseas to study. We’re now 4000 miles apart and things have gotten very strained and difficult. We try our best to message and do video chats. But all that has started to feel hollow…
You’d think that in the year 2012 people would be so beyond those old stereotypes and belief systems of how mix & matching races is “wrong” or “taboo.” Leave it to me to somehow manage to meet some of the ding-dongs who still believe in racial purity. Personally, I think the more mixed…
Dear Mind Over Miles, How do you deal with the physical aspect of your LDR? I know that at the moment I’m finding it super hard because I just can’t hug my boyfriend when he needs it, and he can’t hug me when I do. I just miss physical contact. Do you have…
