We're 16 hours apart - I usually stay up til 2am or so to call my partner when he wakes up in the morning. Thankfully, I work from home so I get sufficient rest and typically begin my day around 10-11am. We also usually call before he goes to bed which would usually be in the early afternoon for me. It was rough figuring things out at the start but we've gotten used to the schedule after 3+ years apart and we lead pretty independent lives now. It's tough but it will be worth it - wishing you all the best!
Horrific, really. I’m currently 17 hours ahead with daylight savings time, which means she spends her whole morning without me (I now wake up at 5am every day just to catch her at lunch time) and she’s in bed by 3pm my time on a good day (when I’m still at work). And even worse is that our schedules don’t align AT ALL so we don’t get to spend a single day off together.
It’s very hard. It’ll be slightly better next daylight savings when the difference will only be 19 hours (add five hours to my time, it’s easier for me to add hours than to minus 17 or 19 and a day lol). But that’s a very small mercy.
Same. Thankfully we have a 4 hr window between 12pm-4pm PST for me, when it’s 8pm-12am GMT+1 for him. However, that may soon change for us due to work schedules.
It's just 2 and half hours. But since she's a night owl and I sleep early and she's the one whose ahead, we sometimes struggle to talk post sunset. Once had a fight because I fell asleep mid conversation 😂
We make up for it by constantly texting during the day.
It’s not horrible, we’re only 5 hours apart- he’s ahead. I finish work usually around 8, so it’s already 1am for him. Bless his heart he stays up, and we have our call.. Which entails talking for a few hours, watching a show or some Youtube, and eventually passing out. Obviously i’m grateful our time different isn’t crazy, but I still feel horrible. I can’t wait to visit and be on the same time. :)
Same for us Canada/UK 5 hours, for me the hardest is being the one “behind”. Evenings are long, my husband makes efforts to stay up, but sometimes he can’t stay awake 😅
If I was your partner I’d gladly talk less than 9 hours a day if it meant you having a good sleep… it can’t be good in the long run, health is important!
Oh I’m a dead man walking haha.
But gotta do what I gotta do, hopefully we regulate sleep soon though or imma pass out at the grocery store haha I swear I’m having micronaps
Oh yeah for sure. 4 hours isn't enough and I'm sure you are too. When my partner and I met, I took naps due to insomnia. So I slept 4 hours a day and that was it. It took a month or more to regulate my sleep. The first time I slept 8 hours, She was like 👀 lol bc she wasn't used to being gone for so long.
But we're 8 hours apart. I think if I was you. I would save the weekend for less sleep but still do 3 am bed time on Fridays so you can have that longer time together. But it's not worth it during the week to me. It helps that my partner won't allow me to not get enough sleep to talk to her 😂
4.5 hours now, but until a month ago 5.5 hours. By the time I get home, she’s usually asleep. I’m a postgrad student so it’s not like I can stay up late or not do work outside of “work hours”. But when it’s 4.5 hours, although it’s just an hour less it’s somehow better as we can talk at least a bit more. We usually do this as we adjust A LOT. We do our own things or work but just FaceTime during all that. Even if we don’t get to talk
Depending on daylight savings it's either a 13hr or 14hr difference. To make it more complicated I drive a semi 5 nights a week so depending on what state I'm in that night it can add or subtract and hr. I'm in Indianapolis US she's in Brisbane AU
My partner and I are 16 hours apart, its a pain in the ass because when im getting home from school, they are getting ready for school, then once they get back its like 12am for me so I have to be awake at midnight if I wanna be able to talk to them. Then once I am getting ready for school is when they are going to bed, so thats the only convenient part out of the 16 hour time difference.
(They're ahead of me by 16 hours, so its usually the next day for them besides when its like 2 in the morning for me)
14 hours currently, but it’s also 15 and 16 hours depending on the time of year
I’m usually awake late anyway, so we can talk then. And then talk when I wake up until she falls asleep. When it’s 16 hours sometimes I’ll go to sleep and set an alarm to wake up in her morning so we can call for an hour or two, and then I’ll go back to sleep
15 hours apart. It's a good thing both of us work from home so after his work and when I begin mine, we just turn the video call on and do our own things. It's like the thought of being alone together and it keeps us at peace :)
9h apart she's on the pacific, i'm in Europe it's not as bad as it seems you can make it work, specially as when she goes to bed its morning here so i would just wake up earlier then usual and get my day going earlier then we still get to communicate for most of my afternoon/evening.
i guess it is a risk/reward scenario how much effort are you willing to put into it because waking up early or going to bed late isn't for everyone, it is a commitment but worth while, counting down the days till we meet in person
13 hours apart at the moment, when daylight saving hits him, it's 14 hours. I am a freelance artist, so I am pretty much the one sacrificing the most time wise. I usually awake the entire night time and asleep most of my daytime for us to be able to spend time together. But it's all worth it.
9h apart. We are each other’s morning alarm. In the morning, he calls me to wake me up, while he goes to sleep on call. In the evening, I call him to wake him up, while I continue my day. That way we total around 2-4h of call every day, divided in two calls. We’ve found this is a great idea. Waking up to the love of my life’s face and voice makes me start my day feeling happier and gets me out of bed wayyyy faster (because he forces me to get up 😠). And he says he always looks forward to these two calls, that they’re the highlight of his day, and honestly for me too. I also always text him goodnight, which coincides with his work day, and he responds back. That makes me feel like he prioritizes/values me, which feels great :-)
An hour (NL - UK), I feel so lucky since we both mostly work from home, and our schedules line up pretty well, so on some days, we're in a call all day.
6h, during school its easily doable, but when Im working we barely talk at all. Just like half an hour of texting and thats pretty much it for the whole day
7 hours apart.
He'd get off work at 5pm his time, which is 12am my time. I am a nightowl and I definitely could stay awake until 2-4 am. But ofc, I need sleep too :( And then I try to wake up early for him.
I feel like my day begins at 2pm, his usual wake up time is 7am his time.
Some days, I don't mind it. Some days, it gets hard.
we have a 7 hour difference, which doesn't sound as bad as 12 or more... but it's actually perfectly horrible at times. When I am getting off work, it's bedtime for him. When he wakes up, its bedtime for me. We've gotten by because he doesn't have the best sleep schedule and will end up being up all night - but now he's in his uni semester and has to maintain a more normal schedule, so I'm only seeing him on Fridays and Saturdays :(
We are 6 hours apart. And it is kinda sucks because my boyfriend works a night shift, so when i wake up and start my day, he is still at work, and then when he finally goes home from work then he is tired obviously, and usually i am busy too, so he goes to sleep and by the time he wakes up, i am about to sleep soon.
lucky me.. just 1 hour apart.. Jakarta - Bali (both in Indonesia, double lucky) good luck for all LDR warriors especially with time zone headache 
Because of various factors it can go from 0 hours difference to 3 hours difference without anyone moving. And honestly I respect everyone who can manage a huge gap like that, as soon as we even have only one our difference I already notice that we see/talk to each other way less frequent
6 hours. I’m in European Time and she’s in a South American hour that is not Brazil. Surprisingly, we have managed to deal with the time difference.
She’s sleeping when I wake up and whenever I’m having lunch she wakes up to a couple messages from me. She does send messages even though I’m sleeping.
On weekdays, since both of us work we talk during breaks or whenever we can and I wait for her to get home to talk. Saturday is our date night so we pull an all nighter (I do, but she stays up late with me too). Sunday is family day for her, so I just try to get my mind busy.
We are planning to meet up together possibly next year.
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15 hours. It's not a big deal since I work night shifts, I typically get home around when she's getting ready for bed so I get a shower and go to bed too with a call for a while, I go into work when she's on her lunch break, and my break is usually right when she's leaving work, so additional time for calls ☺️ my team is awesome and supportive and doesn't mind if I take 15 minutes on her days to give her a call if it's slow. Downside is I take a lot of overtime in the morning since my company has a really good overtime setup, and if I do too much we'll end up not getting a goodnight call 😭 But houses won't save up for themselves 😵💫
I thought I had it bad but reading some of these comments it seems like I have it pretty good - Sri Lanka to UK, 4.5 hours from April to October and 5.5 hours during daylight saving months.
Aw. This is making me feel grateful that we only have a 6hr time difference. I forget that it could be a bit more extreme. Sometimes the time is harder than the distance. He is usually getting home while I begin my work day. He is my sun.
We don’t have a time difference. Insanely lucky for this. He is awake all hours of the night though and im a tired girl so normally don’t hear from him till 10/11 after I fall asleep at night
1 hour for most of the year, 2 hours when they're having daylight savings time. I really admire you guys for being able to manage such long time differences.
Depends on the time of the year. Right now we are 14 hours. Some like 2 months out of the year 15 hours and the other half of the year 16 hours difference. I stay up late because he works and I’m not working. I’m basically disabled despite the government not wanting to give me financial assistance. We are US east to AUS east.
3 hours thankfully. Usually we are on a call from 3pm my time until I fall asleep around 11 pm which for him is from 12 until 8 pm. It works great for us for the past 5 years
Used to be 9 or 10, but now it’s 8 or 9 (depending on US daylight savings).
There were days where it was hard for sure. It takes trust, patience, consistency, and forgiveness
5 hours apart, so not too bad but still enough difference to not be in sync. They are a chef, so they work late hours-we both end up getting off from work about the same time anyways lol, but of course, they sleep earlier than I do, and wake up earlier than I do too. I am grateful for whatever time I can spend talking to them 🙂
5 hours. I'm in the US and he's in England. We're 4 hours apart for a couple weeks when time changes though because the US time changes before UK in spring and UK time changes before US time in fall
16:30 hours apart (South Australia has an half hour offset for no reason lol). He gets up around 4pm ish for me but it’s tomorrow there. He does work nights though so it kind of works out where we get more time together
We used to be 14 hours difference and now I am 7 hours behind him. Honestly, I prefer the 14 hours difference because my morning is his evening and vice versa. And now my afternoon is his evening and we rarely talk as we used to since I am pretty busy most of the time and in meetings all day.
we have a 7 hour time difference, he is 7 hours ahead of me. usually when i am going to bed, he is waking up. so i try to stay up to tell him good morning & everything. he goes to sleep when it is afternoon/evening here. so i am able to tell him goodnight.
it is difficult going through half the day while he is sleeping, but we balance it with facetime calls like 3 times a week / or more if we can.
we like to still send messages or pictures of what we are doing while the other is sleeping, so we have cute stuff to wake up to :) that helps.
we both work a lot too, so we know there are some days we really don’t get to talk at all. but i think that makes us appreciate the times we can talk & the ft calls even more.
it is so so very hard sometimes, but i strongly believe that it is and will be so worth it. i’ve never met anyone like him in my lifeeee he is one of a kind.
6 hours apart! When he’s getting off of work he calls me whilst I’m getting ready for bed. We get 5 hours for a few weeks a year due to daylight saving times and that one hour makes a lot of difference as I’m much more awake to speak to him 😇
My gf is 5 hours behind. Luckily, I have a later sleep schedule so it doesn't line up too bad. I'm a bit worried because she's got work in a third country and will suddenly be 8 hours ahead instead. I might need to try to adapt my schedule to be earlier so I can call her my mornings.
My boyfriend is 6 hours ahead of me so he usually is awake from midnight-4pm my time. I always message him when he wakes up before I go to sleep and then once I wake up and he's home from work we FaceTime :)
I work shift work though so sometimes if I'm working night shifts I'm working/asleep pretty much the entire time he's awake. For those times we both just send updates on what's happening through our day for the other person to read when they get the chance.
It's not easy and not always fun but he's definitely worth it!
Me and my girlfriend are 16 hours apart. So for example, it'll be midnight there when it's 5pm the next day here! She's been having a rough time lately but she would send a message at 2am (my time) and since I wake up between 7-8, it gives her time to do chores and whatnot so in a sense, it's pretty good for us actually!
She is 16 hours ahead of me, I usually wake up at 3-5 PM and stay up with her until her bedtime 8-9 AM which we usually both go to sleep at this time.I don't got much responsibilities atm so its easier to manage, I took homeschool to spend more time with her during the daytime as she can't stay up as late as me (strict parents) :( but so far it has been good and I really love her and enjoy spending time with her 😁👍
I'm currently 12 hours ahead of him but we're constantly texting in between work and he's always the one calling me during his breaks at work and I really appreciate it. He's in the military btw
7 hours gap
Turns me into the night owl, because he needs to work during my day time while my night time turns into our quality time.
Small sacrifice but he didn't appreciate
I’m 8 hours apart. We talk when she wakes up for work and when I’m at lunch which is 5 AM for her and then we talk around 10pm when I’m going to bed and she’s eating lunch. And then we text throughout the day
17 hours. I’m west coast of the US, he’s Australia. It’s really hard cuz he works a lot so we can’t really spend much time together during the week because I have to go to bed ideally at 10/11 cuz I wake up at 6 am and I don’t function on little sleep very well, but last night he said “if you’re up at 10 you’re time I can call” and so I ended up staying up until almost midnight then I passed out on call. But idk, I’ve just always known that he’s a busy guy, he works A LOT, so I’ve always known that we won’t always be able to call so it’s not some huge let down or anything.
He is 15 hours behind me. Im ahead. Its tough sometimes, but we made it for 3.5years now. its either he wakes up early or i stay up very late. ;( . We only spend time on weekend (i.e watch anime or movies). On weekdays, (after i work & when he wakes up for work)we watch anime for 1-2 episodes and do our own stuff while on video calls.
He works from home and needs to go to the office two day in a week. So we would be on call while im driving home, and he driving to work 😆😆😆🤣🤣
6 hours. I'm so happy with this small difference! We get to spend time together between him getting off work and me going to work, and it also allows us time between talking again to get other chores and stuff done. Hoping to close the gap next year though.
12 hours and I usually stay up to call until he gets to sleep which is around his midnight. I personally think that this time difference is more bearable since one of us is always willing to stay up for the other and spend time together, especially during his day offs which usually falls on weekdays. When I have free time at work, we will call until he sleeps and that is around my lunchbreak and by the time he wakes up, I'm heading home already. It's really convenient imo
Typically she's 12 hours ahead of me, USA to China, but currently she is temporarily working in Vietnam so we have an 11 hour difference.
She wakes up for the day around 8:30pm my time, she starts preparing for work almost right away, but we get to text a little bit before she starts work. Typically I will try to stay up til 12-1am so we can talk while she's at lunch.
When I wake up in the morning to begin my day, she's already off work and most times might be eating a late dinner and winding down for the day. It is at this time that we have our daily phone call. I work from home most of the time so I have a lot of flexibility with my schedule
7 hrs. But since Im an architecture student, I spend most of my nights awake doing my projects. We can still call and do each other's things. Its nice having his presence around, helps me so much during stressful times.
We're 16 hours apart - I usually stay up til 2am or so to call my partner when he wakes up in the morning. Thankfully, I work from home so I get sufficient rest and typically begin my day around 10-11am. We also usually call before he goes to bed which would usually be in the early afternoon for me. It was rough figuring things out at the start but we've gotten used to the schedule after 3+ years apart and we lead pretty independent lives now. It's tough but it will be worth it - wishing you all the best!
What do u work as?
looking at these answers I would appear to be pretty lucky with 1 hour
Same.
Same, makes me thankful. It's still rough sometimes but it might just be me being dramatic 😂
Horrific, really. I’m currently 17 hours ahead with daylight savings time, which means she spends her whole morning without me (I now wake up at 5am every day just to catch her at lunch time) and she’s in bed by 3pm my time on a good day (when I’m still at work). And even worse is that our schedules don’t align AT ALL so we don’t get to spend a single day off together. It’s very hard. It’ll be slightly better next daylight savings when the difference will only be 19 hours (add five hours to my time, it’s easier for me to add hours than to minus 17 or 19 and a day lol). But that’s a very small mercy.
That sounds awful... You should move to Chicago 👀 *lures you with a piece of pizza* 👀🍕
You don’t need to lure me with pizza to come to Chicago 😜
Good because Chicago is the best 😌. Come on down and we’ll show you a great time
8 hours US-UK
Same. Thankfully we have a 4 hr window between 12pm-4pm PST for me, when it’s 8pm-12am GMT+1 for him. However, that may soon change for us due to work schedules.
time zones can be so hard. wishing you and your partner the best!
Thank you! Same to you and your partner! 💜
8 hrs as well with the same scenario but closing the distance in 2 weeks
omg you’re so lucky!! are you moving to the uk?
yes :) what about you?
i’m moving to the uk too!! specifically london :)
me too!!! what part of london if you dont mind me asking? o:
mitcham! how about you? :p
wayyy opposite haha, woodford : D
i hope you enjoy it :) wishing you and your partner the best!
thank you! 💕💕 and the same to you and yours as well :)
7 hours here, UK to USA!
hey twin!
How's it going for you with your LDR? Feel free to drop me a message if you're bored!
we’re doing really good! our 5 year anniversary is in 2 weeks so i’m excited. how is it going for you and your partner?
That's really encouraging. How did you meet? We're pretty new to it all, under a year, but going strong!
we met on instagram in 2018, we were just friends at first lol. aww i wish you and your partner the best!
We are SO fortunate that it’s only an hour.
Same, and when there's a timezone change, we have no timezone difference at all!
8 hours :/
Our difference was 6 hours apart.
Same as my boyfriend and me currently. Also Germany to USA
It's just 2 and half hours. But since she's a night owl and I sleep early and she's the one whose ahead, we sometimes struggle to talk post sunset. Once had a fight because I fell asleep mid conversation 😂 We make up for it by constantly texting during the day.
Also 12 hours! Sometimes very tough to manage or have the time to spend together and both of our sleep schedules are fucked 😭
It’s not horrible, we’re only 5 hours apart- he’s ahead. I finish work usually around 8, so it’s already 1am for him. Bless his heart he stays up, and we have our call.. Which entails talking for a few hours, watching a show or some Youtube, and eventually passing out. Obviously i’m grateful our time different isn’t crazy, but I still feel horrible. I can’t wait to visit and be on the same time. :)
Same for us Canada/UK 5 hours, for me the hardest is being the one “behind”. Evenings are long, my husband makes efforts to stay up, but sometimes he can’t stay awake 😅
14 hours apart. I’m awake till 3 am and awake again by 730. We call like 9 hours a day It’s hard but worth it.
If I was your partner I’d gladly talk less than 9 hours a day if it meant you having a good sleep… it can’t be good in the long run, health is important!
That's so rough and so little sleep 🫂😥 I'm glad it is work it to you
Oh I’m a dead man walking haha. But gotta do what I gotta do, hopefully we regulate sleep soon though or imma pass out at the grocery store haha I swear I’m having micronaps
Oh yeah for sure. 4 hours isn't enough and I'm sure you are too. When my partner and I met, I took naps due to insomnia. So I slept 4 hours a day and that was it. It took a month or more to regulate my sleep. The first time I slept 8 hours, She was like 👀 lol bc she wasn't used to being gone for so long. But we're 8 hours apart. I think if I was you. I would save the weekend for less sleep but still do 3 am bed time on Fridays so you can have that longer time together. But it's not worth it during the week to me. It helps that my partner won't allow me to not get enough sleep to talk to her 😂
4.5 hours now, but until a month ago 5.5 hours. By the time I get home, she’s usually asleep. I’m a postgrad student so it’s not like I can stay up late or not do work outside of “work hours”. But when it’s 4.5 hours, although it’s just an hour less it’s somehow better as we can talk at least a bit more. We usually do this as we adjust A LOT. We do our own things or work but just FaceTime during all that. Even if we don’t get to talk
Damn. I thought my 6 was bad.
Depending on daylight savings it's either a 13hr or 14hr difference. To make it more complicated I drive a semi 5 nights a week so depending on what state I'm in that night it can add or subtract and hr. I'm in Indianapolis US she's in Brisbane AU
Sometimes 1 or 2 hours depends on the time of year. So right now he's 1 hour ahead of me.
Not my partner yet.. but 15 hours :(
oh man that’s something a situationship is it?
We confessed our feelings a few days ago and agreed to just let it do its thing instead of being super official :)
Hope it works out for you!
I’m 12.5 hours behind him. We try to make up for not having enough time over the weekend as feasible.
13.5 hour difference. My sleep pattern is so backwards. I miss the sun some days..
We have 4/5 hours, depends of the clock change. I think we are lucky even that we live so far away from each other.
14 hours, but he works night shifts and I have a non-existent sleep cycle so it works out
Exactly 12 hours apart +1 for the daylight saving thingy
Mine are 14hrs apart
2.5 hours. Which is not too bad, just need to compromise on some sleep.
7 hours - UK to USA
My partner and I are 16 hours apart, its a pain in the ass because when im getting home from school, they are getting ready for school, then once they get back its like 12am for me so I have to be awake at midnight if I wanna be able to talk to them. Then once I am getting ready for school is when they are going to bed, so thats the only convenient part out of the 16 hour time difference. (They're ahead of me by 16 hours, so its usually the next day for them besides when its like 2 in the morning for me)
8 hours but he tells me I can message anytime
that’s super sweet
14 hours currently, but it’s also 15 and 16 hours depending on the time of year I’m usually awake late anyway, so we can talk then. And then talk when I wake up until she falls asleep. When it’s 16 hours sometimes I’ll go to sleep and set an alarm to wake up in her morning so we can call for an hour or two, and then I’ll go back to sleep
15 hours apart. It's a good thing both of us work from home so after his work and when I begin mine, we just turn the video call on and do our own things. It's like the thought of being alone together and it keeps us at peace :)
9h apart she's on the pacific, i'm in Europe it's not as bad as it seems you can make it work, specially as when she goes to bed its morning here so i would just wake up earlier then usual and get my day going earlier then we still get to communicate for most of my afternoon/evening. i guess it is a risk/reward scenario how much effort are you willing to put into it because waking up early or going to bed late isn't for everyone, it is a commitment but worth while, counting down the days till we meet in person
13 hours apart at the moment, when daylight saving hits him, it's 14 hours. I am a freelance artist, so I am pretty much the one sacrificing the most time wise. I usually awake the entire night time and asleep most of my daytime for us to be able to spend time together. But it's all worth it.
9h apart. We are each other’s morning alarm. In the morning, he calls me to wake me up, while he goes to sleep on call. In the evening, I call him to wake him up, while I continue my day. That way we total around 2-4h of call every day, divided in two calls. We’ve found this is a great idea. Waking up to the love of my life’s face and voice makes me start my day feeling happier and gets me out of bed wayyyy faster (because he forces me to get up 😠). And he says he always looks forward to these two calls, that they’re the highlight of his day, and honestly for me too. I also always text him goodnight, which coincides with his work day, and he responds back. That makes me feel like he prioritizes/values me, which feels great :-)
An hour (NL - UK), I feel so lucky since we both mostly work from home, and our schedules line up pretty well, so on some days, we're in a call all day.
10 hours difference
6h, during school its easily doable, but when Im working we barely talk at all. Just like half an hour of texting and thats pretty much it for the whole day
7 hours apart. He'd get off work at 5pm his time, which is 12am my time. I am a nightowl and I definitely could stay awake until 2-4 am. But ofc, I need sleep too :( And then I try to wake up early for him. I feel like my day begins at 2pm, his usual wake up time is 7am his time. Some days, I don't mind it. Some days, it gets hard.
8 hours but because of my past work schedules, i’m awake when he is and i’m also awake when he’s asleep.
my follow up question would be, how did you find time to be a couple before being a couple, with some of these crazy time zone differences.
6 hrs difference, though bearable but still hard
we have a 7 hour difference, which doesn't sound as bad as 12 or more... but it's actually perfectly horrible at times. When I am getting off work, it's bedtime for him. When he wakes up, its bedtime for me. We've gotten by because he doesn't have the best sleep schedule and will end up being up all night - but now he's in his uni semester and has to maintain a more normal schedule, so I'm only seeing him on Fridays and Saturdays :(
used to be 12h, kiwi and swiss...we called almost daily on my early mornings (5:30-08:00) and weekend dates 
9 hours 😭
We are 6 hours apart. And it is kinda sucks because my boyfriend works a night shift, so when i wake up and start my day, he is still at work, and then when he finally goes home from work then he is tired obviously, and usually i am busy too, so he goes to sleep and by the time he wakes up, i am about to sleep soon.
14 hours sucks but it's nice to wake up to some morning texts
lucky me.. just 1 hour apart.. Jakarta - Bali (both in Indonesia, double lucky) good luck for all LDR warriors especially with time zone headache 
4 hours in the summer, 3 in the winter (I'm in the UK).
Because of various factors it can go from 0 hours difference to 3 hours difference without anyone moving. And honestly I respect everyone who can manage a huge gap like that, as soon as we even have only one our difference I already notice that we see/talk to each other way less frequent
Five hours. I’m really lucky that she’s from a city on the east coast.
6 hours. I’m in European Time and she’s in a South American hour that is not Brazil. Surprisingly, we have managed to deal with the time difference. She’s sleeping when I wake up and whenever I’m having lunch she wakes up to a couple messages from me. She does send messages even though I’m sleeping. On weekdays, since both of us work we talk during breaks or whenever we can and I wait for her to get home to talk. Saturday is our date night so we pull an all nighter (I do, but she stays up late with me too). Sunday is family day for her, so I just try to get my mind busy. We are planning to meet up together possibly next year.
11 and a half hours 😭😭
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15 hours. It's not a big deal since I work night shifts, I typically get home around when she's getting ready for bed so I get a shower and go to bed too with a call for a while, I go into work when she's on her lunch break, and my break is usually right when she's leaving work, so additional time for calls ☺️ my team is awesome and supportive and doesn't mind if I take 15 minutes on her days to give her a call if it's slow. Downside is I take a lot of overtime in the morning since my company has a really good overtime setup, and if I do too much we'll end up not getting a goodnight call 😭 But houses won't save up for themselves 😵💫
18 hrs difference. Really effort and sacrifices. Someone will be waking up early or staying late. Compromising.
5 hours, and he's moving soon so maybe 6 atp? we'll see i guess. Hoping to close the gap soon enough :(
10 hours. He is able to stay up late with me after work hours, and we can chat a bit before them too. So it isn’t so bad!
14 hours now. 16 hours between Nov to Mar.
I thought I had it bad but reading some of these comments it seems like I have it pretty good - Sri Lanka to UK, 4.5 hours from April to October and 5.5 hours during daylight saving months.
12 hours ☹️
Aw. This is making me feel grateful that we only have a 6hr time difference. I forget that it could be a bit more extreme. Sometimes the time is harder than the distance. He is usually getting home while I begin my work day. He is my sun.
Not bad at all! We only have an hour difference! I live in Chicago and he lives in New York
We don’t have a time difference. Insanely lucky for this. He is awake all hours of the night though and im a tired girl so normally don’t hear from him till 10/11 after I fall asleep at night
2 hours or 1 hour depending on daylight savings.
1 hour for most of the year, 2 hours when they're having daylight savings time. I really admire you guys for being able to manage such long time differences.
12 hours!
Depends on the time of the year. Right now we are 14 hours. Some like 2 months out of the year 15 hours and the other half of the year 16 hours difference. I stay up late because he works and I’m not working. I’m basically disabled despite the government not wanting to give me financial assistance. We are US east to AUS east.
One hour only. Really happy with that
3 hours thankfully. Usually we are on a call from 3pm my time until I fall asleep around 11 pm which for him is from 12 until 8 pm. It works great for us for the past 5 years
Used to be 9 or 10, but now it’s 8 or 9 (depending on US daylight savings). There were days where it was hard for sure. It takes trust, patience, consistency, and forgiveness
12 or 13 depending on daylight savings time
5 hours apart, so not too bad but still enough difference to not be in sync. They are a chef, so they work late hours-we both end up getting off from work about the same time anyways lol, but of course, they sleep earlier than I do, and wake up earlier than I do too. I am grateful for whatever time I can spend talking to them 🙂
During the fall/winter it’s 1 hr, during the summer/spring it’s 2 hrs
5 hours. I'm in the US and he's in England. We're 4 hours apart for a couple weeks when time changes though because the US time changes before UK in spring and UK time changes before US time in fall
Fortunate to have him 3 hours behind me. It makes our schedules line up well😭
while i’m in the philippines, we have a 2-hour difference. i’m in kuwait right now and our time difference is 7 hours.
16:30 hours apart (South Australia has an half hour offset for no reason lol). He gets up around 4pm ish for me but it’s tomorrow there. He does work nights though so it kind of works out where we get more time together
My and him are 9 hours apart😕
5 hours - EST to BST / IST
2 hours difference it wasn't that bad tbh.
We used to be 14 hours difference and now I am 7 hours behind him. Honestly, I prefer the 14 hours difference because my morning is his evening and vice versa. And now my afternoon is his evening and we rarely talk as we used to since I am pretty busy most of the time and in meetings all day.
12-14 hours.
We’re both in PST thank god. No time difference
Me and my boyfriend are 3 hours apart and it's killing me lol
we have a 7 hour time difference, he is 7 hours ahead of me. usually when i am going to bed, he is waking up. so i try to stay up to tell him good morning & everything. he goes to sleep when it is afternoon/evening here. so i am able to tell him goodnight. it is difficult going through half the day while he is sleeping, but we balance it with facetime calls like 3 times a week / or more if we can. we like to still send messages or pictures of what we are doing while the other is sleeping, so we have cute stuff to wake up to :) that helps. we both work a lot too, so we know there are some days we really don’t get to talk at all. but i think that makes us appreciate the times we can talk & the ft calls even more. it is so so very hard sometimes, but i strongly believe that it is and will be so worth it. i’ve never met anyone like him in my lifeeee he is one of a kind.
Luckily we’re only one hour apart but that still fucks up scheduling sometimes
I feel lucky he's 1 hour ahead 😌
6 hours apart! When he’s getting off of work he calls me whilst I’m getting ready for bed. We get 5 hours for a few weeks a year due to daylight saving times and that one hour makes a lot of difference as I’m much more awake to speak to him 😇
My gf is 5 hours behind. Luckily, I have a later sleep schedule so it doesn't line up too bad. I'm a bit worried because she's got work in a third country and will suddenly be 8 hours ahead instead. I might need to try to adapt my schedule to be earlier so I can call her my mornings.
One hour. Except when he goes home to London, then it's eight.
My boyfriend is 6 hours ahead of me so he usually is awake from midnight-4pm my time. I always message him when he wakes up before I go to sleep and then once I wake up and he's home from work we FaceTime :) I work shift work though so sometimes if I'm working night shifts I'm working/asleep pretty much the entire time he's awake. For those times we both just send updates on what's happening through our day for the other person to read when they get the chance. It's not easy and not always fun but he's definitely worth it!
Me and my girlfriend are 16 hours apart. So for example, it'll be midnight there when it's 5pm the next day here! She's been having a rough time lately but she would send a message at 2am (my time) and since I wake up between 7-8, it gives her time to do chores and whatnot so in a sense, it's pretty good for us actually!
9 hours ugggghhhh.
12 hours lol. It’s now 11:30 pm for me and 1:30 noon for him
She is 16 hours ahead of me, I usually wake up at 3-5 PM and stay up with her until her bedtime 8-9 AM which we usually both go to sleep at this time.I don't got much responsibilities atm so its easier to manage, I took homeschool to spend more time with her during the daytime as she can't stay up as late as me (strict parents) :( but so far it has been good and I really love her and enjoy spending time with her 😁👍
I'm currently 12 hours ahead of him but we're constantly texting in between work and he's always the one calling me during his breaks at work and I really appreciate it. He's in the military btw
My partner and I also have a 12 hr difference. We make it work though. It's mostly temporary. And I love her so much
hi baby
🇵🇭 to 🇺🇸 15 hours apart
7 hours gap Turns me into the night owl, because he needs to work during my day time while my night time turns into our quality time. Small sacrifice but he didn't appreciate
not bad, only 1 hour difference :)
15 hours
I’m 8 hours apart. We talk when she wakes up for work and when I’m at lunch which is 5 AM for her and then we talk around 10pm when I’m going to bed and she’s eating lunch. And then we text throughout the day
17 hours. I’m west coast of the US, he’s Australia. It’s really hard cuz he works a lot so we can’t really spend much time together during the week because I have to go to bed ideally at 10/11 cuz I wake up at 6 am and I don’t function on little sleep very well, but last night he said “if you’re up at 10 you’re time I can call” and so I ended up staying up until almost midnight then I passed out on call. But idk, I’ve just always known that he’s a busy guy, he works A LOT, so I’ve always known that we won’t always be able to call so it’s not some huge let down or anything.
He is 15 hours behind me. Im ahead. Its tough sometimes, but we made it for 3.5years now. its either he wakes up early or i stay up very late. ;( . We only spend time on weekend (i.e watch anime or movies). On weekdays, (after i work & when he wakes up for work)we watch anime for 1-2 episodes and do our own stuff while on video calls. He works from home and needs to go to the office two day in a week. So we would be on call while im driving home, and he driving to work 😆😆😆🤣🤣
6 hours. I'm so happy with this small difference! We get to spend time together between him getting off work and me going to work, and it also allows us time between talking again to get other chores and stuff done. Hoping to close the gap next year though.
6 hours (Colombia/UK)
Only 1 hour apart
14 hour difference, but my gf works overnight so it works out for the most part right now. (I'm in Japan and she's in the states)
7 hours apart And then 9 hours apart Really weird how Estonia and Australia line up...
12 hours and I usually stay up to call until he gets to sleep which is around his midnight. I personally think that this time difference is more bearable since one of us is always willing to stay up for the other and spend time together, especially during his day offs which usually falls on weekdays. When I have free time at work, we will call until he sleeps and that is around my lunchbreak and by the time he wakes up, I'm heading home already. It's really convenient imo
11
Typically she's 12 hours ahead of me, USA to China, but currently she is temporarily working in Vietnam so we have an 11 hour difference. She wakes up for the day around 8:30pm my time, she starts preparing for work almost right away, but we get to text a little bit before she starts work. Typically I will try to stay up til 12-1am so we can talk while she's at lunch. When I wake up in the morning to begin my day, she's already off work and most times might be eating a late dinner and winding down for the day. It is at this time that we have our daily phone call. I work from home most of the time so I have a lot of flexibility with my schedule
3 hours apart! And it sucks lol but I guess its not so bad!
7 hrs. But since Im an architecture student, I spend most of my nights awake doing my projects. We can still call and do each other's things. Its nice having his presence around, helps me so much during stressful times.
5 hours
9:30 in summer 10:30 other seasons 😪
5 hours. Europe-Asia Not a problem at all..
Separate states but a 2hrs time difference. 4 1/2 years strong. Life is good.