What loved ones? I don’t love anyone.
COVID I think it was about a year and a few months, we live in a far away city and no one felt safe flying to see each other
Eight months.
The day after my 21st birthday, late September, I’d left home to go to trucking school. Went through a trucking company’s in-house “apprenticeship” program, which was somewhat predatory in hindsight.
Anyway, I went through this program, managed to get my CDL, which took several months by itself (through no fault of my own - the program was designed to take that long), and when I finally got a truck to myself, it only took me about five weeks to grow tired of the sudden isolation. I was finally allowed to go home around Easter.
After my three allocated days of hometime, I decided to quit that company, and I found a better job closer to home.
That’s really good to hear, and that the isolation gave you the perspective
Eight years. Moved away to another continent, they didn’t visit me and I was busy exploring my new life. See them once a year these days.
Three-ish years. We live in different countries, and covid happened.
Did the relationship survive
Three months. New job, and I moved in advance so I could find a place for myself, GF and kids while they stayed at family.
Other than that, 5-6 weeks routinely (5 weeks in, 5 weeks off), as I used to work offshore. I still work in the same industry, but I’m on-shore support now, so the travels are rarely more than a week at a time, and not as often either.
How did you/your partner cope?
Both of us coped just fine. I worked away before we first met, and one gets used to it pretty easily. Past a couple of weeks, the duration doesn’t matter that much either.
Going on two years.
one week
Yeah last time was on a school trip for me, that was two weeks.
I don’t go on vacations at all so…
All my life or All my life minus two years depending if self love is a valid answer for a loved one.
My partner and I were away from each other for three years in different countries and continents because of Covid… then we got married :)
Oct 2019 till Jan 2021.
