Two months ago, I met a sweetie pie of a girl (Angela) through sheer happenstance. I immediately pounced on the opportunity to exchange contact info with her, and we went to a late-summer concert for our 1st date. It was great, but after the concert she told me that she was only going to be in town until December. I looked her dead in the eye and asked: "so, what are hoping to get out of this?" to which she replied: "just some harmless fun." I was fully down with that, and made a mental note to shield myself emotionally.

Things escalated quickly. We weren't exclusive in the beginning, but unbeknownst to each other, we both stopped seeing other people. The physical chemistry was so amazing, we kinda became exclusive unintentionally -- if that makes sense. She's the bubbly extroverted type, and I'm the laid-back introvert. We can talk endlessly and our vibes naturally feed off each other.

Two weeks ago, she dropped a bombshell on me. She basically told me that she wants to be my girlfriend. I wasn't expecting that at all; in fact I specifically made an effort to not fall for her because I realized it was going to hurt me eventually.

She concedes the distance will be hard (10 hour flight), but she wants to try nonetheless. I was fully honest with her, telling her that I'd be one lucky mofo to be her BF, but that I'm deeply cynical about long-distance relationships because of a painful experience that I've had previously. 

She maintains that we should give it a shot, despite how crazy it might sound to embark on an LDR with someone you met a couple of moths ago. I've already fallen for this girl; it's easy to find girls, but a girl like this only comes along once or twice per lifetime. Am I letting my cynicism get in the way of our happiness? What does Reddit think?
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Met a great girl 2 months ago and we're very compatible. She's going away for at least a year,
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Two months ago, I met a sweetie pie of a girl (Angela) through sheer happenstance. I immediately pounced on the opportunity to exchange contact info with her, and we went to a late-summer concert for our 1st date. It was great, but after the concert she told me that she was only going to be in town until December. I looked her dead in the eye and asked: "so, what are hoping to get out of this?" to which she replied: "just some harmless fun." I was fully down with that, and made a mental note to shield myself emotionally.

Things escalated quickly. We weren't exclusive in the beginning, but unbeknownst to each other, we both stopped seeing other people. The physical chemistry was so amazing, we kinda became exclusive unintentionally -- if that makes sense. She's the bubbly extroverted type, and I'm the laid-back introvert. We can talk endlessly and our vibes naturally feed off each other.

Two weeks ago, she dropped a bombshell on me. She basically told me that she wants to be my girlfriend. I wasn't expecting that at all; in fact I specifically made an effort to not fall for her because I realized it was going to hurt me eventually.

She concedes the distance will be hard (10 hour flight), but she wants to try nonetheless. I was fully honest with her, telling her that I'd be one lucky mofo to be her BF, but that I'm deeply cynical about long-distance relationships because of a painful experience that I've had previously. 

She maintains that we should give it a shot, despite how crazy it might sound to embark on an LDR with someone you met a couple of moths ago. I've already fallen for this girl; it's easy to find girls, but a girl like this only comes along once or twice per lifetime. Am I letting my cynicism get in the way of our happiness? What does Reddit think?
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Girl that I met a couple of months ago doesn't want to be exclusive, but wants to be my
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