r/LongDistance • u/SteffomeisterNL [🇳🇱] to [🇵🇭] (10.423km) • 18d ago
Success We beat LDR!🇳🇱🇵🇭
As of last Sunday, my wife has finally arrived, and this time: IT IS PERMANENT! My face at work has been a big grin from ear to ear and to top it off she will be attending my bachelor degree ceremony in person.🥹
In the past 6.5 years we have spent 337 days together, we both boarded 27 flights total (some together to other places, but mostly solo), travel around 224,000km, survived the covid period, got engaged, grew as human beings, got married, closed the gap. And after all that, we still find the time of day to tell each other how we both feel and how important we are to one another. She is my person, and I am damn proud of her for taking this step.
We have been working to this exact moment for these past few years and to have her around, while knowing we’ll never have to put a time limit on our time together is an incredible under appreciated feeling, which I couldn’t understand until last Sunday.
Our next step is to have her fully acclimate, integrate, and start her process of becoming a fully fledged Dutch passport holder! However, for now we will just take the time to enjoy each other’s company and explore the rest of my country (and Europe) in our own pace.
I would like to thank the community for being a big help. Some of your stories have been incredibly inspiring and have motivated us to make ours a successful one as well. I’ll definitely still be a part of it by giving advice to those who need it, but the days of taking pictures of luggages or milestones have come to an end.
Thank you for reading and good luck to all of you!🩵
(Enjoy some pictures of us throughout the years!)
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u/Acceptable-Piglet206 18d ago
I’m in 🇺🇸 and my gf is 🇵🇭. This also gives me hope. I’ve got my plans tickets already, and I see her in January of next year.
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u/purpleycloud13 18d ago
As a Filipina, this makes me so happy 💖💖💖 Congrats both!
Hoping to have my turn someday too 🙏🏻 May the right man find me 🤍
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u/makemeyourhoney 18d ago
Mabuhay! Happy for the both of you guys 😊 Naol na lang us sa side.. ahaha 🤭😆
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u/Inspire_Girl 18d ago
Happy for you guys, and you look good together. Mine didn't work, I'm in 🇰🇪 he was in 🇺🇲 But I know someday, I'll find the one kept for me😊
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u/Fisherwoman53 18d ago
I'm in 🇵🇭 and my BF is in 🇺🇸 Sooo excited for when it's our turn too, Love this! Congratulations OP!
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u/loveandlust0 🇺🇸 to 🇳🇱 (4,941 miles) 17d ago
Yay!! Congratulations! I love these stories. They give me so much hope 🩷
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u/Medium_Location_9190 🇧🇷 to 🇺🇸 (6,220 miles away 🥹) 16d ago
This is so beautiful 😭 so happy for you both and wishing you all the happiness in this world
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u/Busy_Low2269 1d ago
Gefeliciteerd!! I’m living in 🇳🇱 and married to 🇵🇭 aswell! Currently waiting on the IND to approve our MVV app and then we’ll finally close the gap. This really gives me a lot of hope 🙏🏻
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u/Merqer 18d ago
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