Well, where to begin?

Long Term, Long Distance

I am a 20 year old sophomore in college. I dated a girl for 3.5 years, from sophomore year in high school till freshman year in college, being at the same college, and now I have been dating my current girlfriend for 10 months, at different schools, despite being from the same hometown. So I have a good understanding of long term relationships, both living near the person, and afar.

The first relationship was great but died out basically because we wanted to head in different directions.

The one I'm in now started out incredibly, but now is facing some big problems and I'm finding what a difference in maturity a year makes between me, a sophomore, and her, a wandering freshman.

Either way, I have been and am in love, and I have been in some pretty different from the norm relationships than what most teenagers or young adults go through and I have a very good understanding of what goes on in a relationship from a young adults perspective.

Treat Others as You Would Like To Be Treated

Plain and simple; treat as you would want to be treated. It's all about the other person's happiness being a great factor in your own. I feel that love knows no age and no time or distance, but I have figured out that the phrase "you should never have to work at your relationship" is a myth.

I'm Lefty's Opposite

I think I am the opposite of Lefty in that I don't give such a direct approach to everything. I don't feel there is a direct route to anything, or "this is how it is." Instead, my views tend to seek ways to accomplish and work around and through problems, rather than to just say this is how it is, and leave it.

– Duval

Male, age 20, USA