History Main / LongDistanceRelationship

* HK-47 in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 states: "Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds."

* HK-47 in SWKOTOR "Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds."

* Used in ''KimiNoIruMachi'' and ended badly, when the female lead Yuzuki decided to cut off all contact with the male lead Haruto and date her dying childhood friend as a pity date. Since this is a Seo Kouji series, it never crossed her mind to explain this in any way shape or form to the male lead.

* Used in KimiNoIruMachi and ended badly, when the female lead decided to cut off all contact with the male lead and date her dying childhood friend as a pity date. Since this is a Seo Kouji series, it never crossed her mind to explain this in any way shape or form to the male lead.
** They try it again later when the male lead gets a job that requires him to move. He is initially encouraged when he finds out his senior at work has maintained a successful long distance relationship with her boyfriend for five years. Until she shows up at his apartment distraught and begging to sleep with him since she just broke up with her boyfriend. The distance was more emotional in her case. As much as she and her boyfriend loved each other, their dreams for the future were just incompatible. Her boyfriend wanted her to quit her job and move in with him so they could raise a family, and she wanted to stay at her job. They avoided confronting the issue for years, but it finally came to a head.

* In ''Anime/{{GunBuster}}'', Kazuki's relationship with Coach Ohta is not only long distance, it very quickly becomes a MayflyDecemberRomance because relativistic effects means that Kazuki will outlive Ohta (and most of human civilization, as a matter of fact) by a long shot.

* In Anime/{{GunBuster}}, Kazuki's relationship with Coach Ohta is not only long distance, it very quickly becomes a MayflyDecemberRomance because relativistic effects means that Kazuki will outlive Ohta (and most of human civilization, as a matter of fact) by a long shot.

* The anime version of MarmaladeBoy had this for a while, when Yuu takes a scholarship and goes to study in America leaving his girlfriend Miki behind. [[spoiler: It didn't work very well though: they did their best to try mantaining their bond, but Miki is emotionally exhausted due to being pursued by other two guys and, after a rather tasteless prank from a ClingyJealousGirl who's after Yuu, they break it off for a while.]]
* In Manga/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.

* ''TheConditionsForParadise'' is a GirlsLove manga that centers around the challenges of maintaining a long-distance romance.

* In L.M. Montgomery's ''AnneOfGreenGables'' 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 {{Gunbuster}}, Kazuki's relationship with Coach Ohta is not only long distance, it very quickly becomes a MayflyDecemberRomance because relativistic effects means that Kazuki will outlive Ohta (and most of human civilization, as a matter of fact) by a long shot.

* ''VoicesOfADistantStar'' and ''FiveCentimetersPerSecond''. MakotoShinkai ''loves'' this trope.

* Koyuki and Maho in ''Manga/{{Beck}}'', but [[GeckoEnding only in the manga]].

* In some romantic endings from FireEmblem, one half of a support-built couple goes back to his/her land of origin, but the other one visits them once in a while, and after some time they get officially together. Some of them are:
** [[FireEmblemElibe FE 7 (Rekka no Ken/Blazing Sword)]]: Sain/Fiora, Kent/either Fiora or Farina, Erk/Serra, maybe [[LesYay Lyn/Florina]] if you ship them.
** [[FireEmblemTheSacredStones FE 8 (Seima no Kouseki/The Sacred Stones)]]: Ephraim/either Tana or L'Arachel, Eirika/either Saleh or Innes, Forde/Vanessa, Innes/L'Arachel, Kyle/Syrene.

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

* [[spoiler: Jason and Kelly]] by the end of ''MysteryTeam''.

* TheXFiles Mulder and Scully carry on a rather clumsily-written version of this trope in the show's final season.
* {{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.
* {{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.

* {{The X-Files}} Mulder and Scully carry on a rather clumsily-written version of this trope in the show's final season.

* Ted in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' with Victoria, his first serious girlfriend in the series when she moves to Germany for a baking scholorship. Future!Ted tells us right from the start that long distance relationships never work. Including theirs.

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

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* The anime version of MarmaladeBoy had this for a while. [[spoiler: It didn't work very well though.]]

* Koyuki and Maho in {{Beck}}, but [[GeckoEnding only in the manga]].

** [[FireEmblemTheSacredStones FE 8 (Seima no Kouseki/The Sacred Stones)]]: Ephraim/L'Arachel, Eirika/Saleh, Forde/Vanessa.

* In FireEmblem romantic endings, one half of a support-built couple goes back to his/her land of origin, but the other one visits them once in a while, and after some time they get officially together. Some of them are:
** [[FireEmblemElibe FE 7 (Rekka no Ken/Blazing Sword)]]: Sain/Fiora, Kent/either Fiora or Farina, Erk/Serra (in a variation he's working in his studies but keeps thinking of her, and she leaves Ostian service to meet him again).

* 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. In the anime it's slightly changed; Mamoru gets killed off a little after his plane took off, and since Usagi didn't see it she truly believed Mamoru wasn't able to contact her.]].)

* 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 ''The39Clues'', Amy Cahill and Evan Tolliver's long-distance relationship (carried on mostly via phone) starts after Amy takes off on a series of missions around the world.

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

* {{The X-Files}} Mulder and Scully carry on a rather clumsily-written version of this trope in the show's final season.

* Ted in ''HowIMetYourMother'' with Victoria, his first serious girlfriend in the series when she moves to Germany for a baking scholorship. Future!Ted tells us right from the start that long distance relationships never work. Including theirs.

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