Lou Lou, My advice would be that you proceed with caution as it can be positive or it could be negative. Not because it is long distance, but because you cannot really know someone that you forge a relationship with long distance without some outside influence from friends, family, etc. So, I would say that it depends on how long you have known this person. You do not say how you met. Have you ever lived near each other? Did you meet through friends who may know the person well? Not knowing the answers to these questions, I will pass to you what my counselor recently told me...never marry someone until you see them day in and day out in all kinds of circumstances. I met a military man who lived several hundred miles away, we dated for two years and then married, all while formulating my opinions and feelings based on the person he "showed me" on the weekends, weeks and leaves that we were together. Because he would be stationed to the base where I was, we even continued long distance for most of the first year of our marriage. The bad news is how much I did not know about him for many years because he was "in and out" with one deployment or another. In the end, if you can see the person enough to really get to know them, it is not that hard "long dista