How often is enough or not enough to see the person your in a relationship with?

I have been with my gf for 4/5 months and feel we don’t spend enough time together now! We live 30 miles apart, she works in London during the week (Leaves home at 5am, gets home around 7pm), so by time she has had a bath/shower and food it is 9pm and she is very tired and pretty much needs to go to sleep! I nip over in the week once or twice, sort dinner and stay over! When we started going out, she wasn’t working in London, so she would come over to mine have food, stay over etc and it was cool! It seems we see each other at the weekends usually abit, but sometimes i feel she prioritises stuff over me and i think is it worth it?

Answer #1

There is no guideline to say what is or is not enough - it’s based on a lot of factors. Obviously she’s very busy with work and the fact that she lives a distance from you makes seeing each other regularly a difficult thing. The problem is that you’re viewing this from a “me” standpoint. You’re biggest concern is that she’s making work her priority over you. Of course work is important - she has bills to pay, like everyone else, and unfortunately, love doesn’t pay the bills. If you’re asking yourself if it’s worth it, then there’s one simple answer to that - do you love her? Because if you do, then love waits.

Answer #2

Every relationship is different, some couples see each other daily, while some go weeks, months or even years due to work. What you need to figure out is what your needs are? If you caant handle being apart for that long then maybe shes not the right gir for you and you need to find someone more local.

Answer #3

That all depends on how you truly feel about her. It’s not like as if she is passing off a chance to be with you by being with her friends, she is doing it for work! Sometimes, in a relationship that is worth saving, it’s good to look at it as a time apart. We all need our space, and it makes grow fonder & learn to appreciate what we have when we do get to spend time with our significant others.

I would call it a blessing in disguise…you love one another, you want to be with each other…work is a way to make it happen to build a future so you are both financially secured…rather then giving her a hard time, I would try to make up for it…a nice candle lite dinner surprise for her while she is at work…perhaps some flowers & romantic music to help her unwind…I think she will appreciate it more then coming at her with remarks like..”where have you been, I was waiting for you all day & we hardly even get to spend any time together!”

Use the weekends for just that…make the best of it schedule time…perhaps a vacation when she gets time off…remember, she is not blowing you off, she is working!!!!

good luck!

Answer #4

Ugh, I’m kind of in the same situation. My boyfriend is in the army and sometimes works from 4:30am-6, 7 and sometimes 8pm.. he lives about 50 miles away (takes an hour or so to get here) so lately I’ve only been seeing him a couple of times a week.. it’s really hard, and I’m really struggling with it at the moment.. We don’t talk much when we’re apart.. I wish he would make a little effort to see me or at least talk to me every now and then, but I guess I have to understand his position. It’s worth it if you really love and care about her.. and it’s worth it if she’s feeling the same way about you.

Answer #5

Maybe i wasn’t so clear in my initial post, because i completely understand that she has to work and it’s a difficult period we will work through. I haven’t mentioned that i have found the situation a little annoying because there isn’t anything she can do and i know that! This is why i go over there at least once, usually twice in the week to sort her dinner for when she is home to ease the long day she has had etc!

What i meant by prioritising is that, at weekends she has the chance to spend more time with me, im not saying every minute of the weekend, just quite alot of it… or is this me just wanting to much?

Answer #6

Everyday, in the morning and when I come home from work since a few weeks ago. :) Loving the arrangement…..Glad he’s in my life, I’m incomplete without Ryan.

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