History Main / LongDistanceRelationship

* Done to all the married couples on DefyingGravity, what with half of each pairing being in space for six years.
* Ziva had one of these on {{NCIS}} - cue "sympathy" from jealous Tony, as well as comments from an ex-hooker suggesting that Ziva look closer to home. Now, ''who'' could she mean?

* In KodomoNoOmocha, Sana goes on an extended film project out in the woods and is plagued by rumors and [[YokoOhNo angry fangirls]] of her colleague who hate her for apparently dating him; later, the prospect of her love interest Hayama going overseas to recuperate from serious injury is enough to send her into a HeroicBSOD, though eventually she comes to terms with it and they are reunited in the DistantFinale.

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* Name a fairy tale where the OfficialCouple get together in the first few scenes, and one or the other will have to leave their lover behind for whatever reason. Cue LaserGuidedAmnesia.

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* In ''BittersweetCandyBowl'', the main character Mike is dating a girl named Sandy, who moved away when they were younger.

* Name a fairy tale where the OfficialCouple get together in the first few scenes, and one or the other will have to leave their lover behind for whatever reason. Cue LaserGuidedAmnesia.

* The film TheLakeHouse has an interesting variant: the distance isn't in space so much as in time.

* Done to all the married couples on DefyingGravity, what with half of each pairing being in space for six years.
* Ziva had one of these on {{NCIS}} - cue "sympathy" from jealous Tony, as well as comments from an ex-hooker suggesting that Ziva look closer to home. Now, ''who'' could she mean?
* Kathleen and Jeff on the ''TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'' whenever Jeff goes on one of his frequent and extended medical missions to Kenya.

* This trope is petty much the entire point of the show Ny-Lon, which is about a relationship between a girl in New York and a guy in London... which, naturally, leads to a break-up or major fight about how hard long distance relationships are just about every other episode so that one character can dramatically fly across the ocean to re-proclaim there love. Of course, in the end [[spoiler: they break up anyway.]]
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'' takes this to another level, with multiple characters having left significant others on the other side of the universe. The communication stones make things easier. Camille Wray looks likely to stick with her partner, Sharon. Colonel Young's marriage, on the other hand, is less solid.
* {{The X-Files}} Mulder and Scully carry on a rather clumsily-written version of this trope in the show's final season.
* The movie ''Film/Going the Distance'' is set around a couple trying to have a long distance relationship.
* {{Zoey 101}}: Chase and Zoey attempt this via webcam after [[spoiler: she overhears Chase tell his roommates he's in love with her and they switch places in an attempt to be together]], but after their video date fails, the come to the conclusion that it wont' work and resolve to try it for real when they're together again.
* The ''TokimekiMemorial'' series has a couple of examples of this, most notably with [[spoiler: Kaedeko Sakura]] in ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'' and [[spoiler: Chiharu Aoki]] in ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 1''. Due to the series' alignment to the far end of the idealism's side of [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism the Sliding Scale]] and its extremely strong [[ThePowerOfLove Power of Love]] theme, they always work out in the end.

* In L.M. Montgomery's ''{{Anne of Green Gables}}'' series, Anne and Gilbert carry on one for roughly three years, while he attends medical school and she teaches high school. ''Anne of Windy Poplars'' is composed entirely of Anne's letters to Gilbert while they are separated.
** In ''Rilla of Ingleside'', many of Anne and Gilbert's children carry on long distance relationships during World War I. The one emphasized, obviously, is Rilla's sort-of, unofficial (she's confused) long distance relationship with her childhood friend/crush Ken Ford.

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* The entire movie ''Film/GoingTheDistance'' explores this trope using current technology such as webcam chats, and text messages.

* CSI, post season 9. Grissom and Sara are married, but Sara is working at the lab in Vegas, while Grissom travels and researches and lectures.

* ''StargateUniverse'' takes this to another level, with multiple characters having left significant others on the other side of the universe. The communication stones make things easier. Camille Wray looks likely to stick with her partner, Sharon. Colonel Young's marriage, on the other hand, is less solid.

* The entire movie ''GoingTheDistance'' explores this trope using current technology such as webcam chats, and text messages.

* The movie ''Going the Distance'' is set around a couple trying to have a long distance relationship.

* In ''BittersweetCandyBowl'', the main character of Mike is dating a girl named Sandy, who moved away when they were younger.

* Kathleen and Jeff on the ''TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'' when Jeff goes on one of his extended medical missions to Kenya.

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* During the Sailor Stars arc of ''SailorMoon'', Mamoru went to America to study, leaving Usagi behind for a large part of the series. (And then it turns out that [[spoiler: Mamoru actually had his heart crystal ''stolen at the airport'', and Usagi witnessed it, but she was so traumatized that she repressed this memory]].)

* MarmaladeBoy had this for a while. It didn't work very well though.
* In KodomoNoOmocha, Sana goes on an extended film project out in the woods and is plagued by rumors and angry fangirls of her colleague who hate her for apparently dating him; later, the prospect of her love interest Hayama going overseas to recuperate from serious injury is enough to send her into a HeroicBSOD, though eventually she comes to terms with it and they are reunited in the DistantFinale.

* Variant in CaseClosed: Ran thinks that Shinichi has run off to investigate some kind of case, but in truth [[spoiler: he's Conan, aged down thanks to plot]].

* [[LesYay Subaru and Teana]] fell into this after ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]'' when their personal goals stationed them in different posts. But as Teana told [[GenkiGirl Subaru]] [[{{Tsundere}} in an annoyed tone]] when they reunited in ''[[AllThereInTheManual StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'', the latter kept on bombarding her with so much e-mail that she didn't even notice the distance.

Perhaps AliceAndBob started out dating while they [[GirlNextDoor lived close together]] and one had to move away (far enough away that they can't see each other on a regular basis); perhaps they began the relationship through the mail (or, in more modern stories, over the internet) and never met in real life at all (but may be planning to at some point).

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