LDRs can work and can be quite rewarding and enjoyable, but they have a suspense date. One of the parties has to be willing to relocate, or at some point, "Last call." See, LDRs are like milk. You get it and it has a built in spoil-date. Now, if you keep it refrigerated at a nice cool temperature, you can make it last a little longer than the date.

So,

TIP 1: keep your LDR cooler than normal relationships.

But, even with a frosty setting on the nicest refrigerator, mother nature will have her way with your milk, at which point it becomes buttermilk. Once this happens you have to...

TIP 2: Re-evaluate why you bought the milk

See, if you got if for the normal things like eating cereal or making chocolate milk, buttermilk will be ill-suited for the task. If you are able to upon re-evaluation say, "Hey, Betty Crocker makes some AAAMMMZZING Buttermilk biscuits!" Then you can redefine your purpose for the milk and proceed making biscuits, but mind you

TIP 3: A recipe for this sort of thing must be made to suit what you have available

Making biscuits is a whole different ball-game than eating cereal.

In answer, yes LDRs can work, but only for a prescribed time. Then it's time to either move, evolve, or put it aside.

The problem with people, they are quick to fall for each other without think of their own reality....meaning, for a woman with kids, her decision includes her children even the father of her kids if he is still active in her childrens lives. She can't just uproot and go wher ever she wants. This applies to the man, he has a responsibility if he has kids too.

Before allowing yourself to be involve in a situation like this, think first.

Falling for someone overseas

Distance is a big issue when you really need the phyical to make something work.

Cost is another especially if you are overseas. Good to have money, it helps the cost.

Trust is an important one and one that will help make it work, without that, its doomed!

Eligibility to reside in the other's country is another important thing to look into.

Health, you have to be healthy and unless you just got lucky and got in.

Good working skills , its a must...unless your spouse is sponsoring you.

I believe anything is possible but must think before putting yourself in a relationship of such

*physical ....we all need that otherwise we feel strange

ok speaking from experience, no.. they don't! and i was foolish enough at one point in time to believe my relationship could be different- that it could change the statement to be that yes they could work. of course after a couple of weeks of us dating i thought things were just peachy until my best friend at that time delivered "the message" yea he dumped me! and i didn't know until my true best friend told me that the one who delivered "the message" was talking to him behind my back, sending him text messages abt what they were gonna do, and sending him picture messages of, well, you can only imagine!
now i'm not gonna lie, but heck yea i was angry- big time! and if you know me, then you know i'm a lover and not a fighter but when things get this messed up- you had better watch out! lol well, when i found out, the deliverer was satying the night with me and so was the real best friend. yea she kept me in my room and calmed me down before i went back in there to where she was. i'm tellin you i was blood red in the face and bawling my eyes out bc i never thought that i could have been treated this way and especially by a "friend".. now that its all over i mean yea i've talked to her every once in a while but only bc i thank her for letting me know how he was and how she was so that i know not to make the same mistakes again. i learned 2 things from this.
1. long distance relationships are as bad as they sound and
2. when i got a new bf i never told her avt it or i would make sure they didn't get along! haha

yes they can work, but you have to know each other in real life, just an online relationship is not enough of a solid foundation to build on. and eventually someone (or both of you) is gonna have to make a move to be closer together.
Although long distance relationships are hard work, harder than "normal" relationships, so be prepared. if i knew how difficult it was going to be, maybe i would have thought twice - but then you can't choose who you fall in love with and you can't choose where they happen to live!