• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    17 days ago

    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

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    17 days ago

    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.

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    17 days ago

    Three-ish years. We live in different countries, and covid happened.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    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.

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        17 days ago

        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.

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    15 days ago

    My partner and I were away from each other for three years in different countries and continents because of Covid… then we got married :)

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    17 days ago

    All my life or All my life minus two years depending if self love is a valid answer for a loved one.