<human>: Long story short my girlfriend is going to be going to a college in Israel for a year due to her financial situation, I'm graduating next year and a month after she gets back from Israel I'm going to be leaving for a design school in Singapore for a year and 8 months.

We know that we want to continue to be together, we haven't decided if we are going to actively pursue the relationship during our studies or take a break and get back together after.

Due to the nature of where we are going to be during this visiting each other is almost completely out of the picture. 

I've always heard that long distance relationships are terrible and that they fail, and its in the general best interest to not pursue them but she's been away for work the past two months and wont be coming back until the end of this month and we're really doing well and communicating while we are apart. Its sort of given me the confidence to try and pursue long distance.

Anyways I want to know what I'm getting into, and would like some advice from people that may have experienced long distance or are in the same boat

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<bot>: Going to be starting a long distance in September for 2-3 years and I would like some advice/would like to know what I'm getting into