I agreed to my girlfriend advising me to unsubscribe this sub, because seeing all the sad posts always make me feel worse instead of better, but I just waved "goodbye" to my girlfriend at the airport and I really need to vent before unsubscribing again.

We met IRL, and my girlfriend and I already went long-distance for 6 months, last year, at that same time of the year. In June, I closed the distance and we started living together. Those last months have been amazing and I just keep on falling more and more in love with her everyday.

I went to her county with a WHV and had everything prepared to switch to a student visa when it would expire. Or so, I thought.

Visa was going to expire on January, but, at the beginning of December, I got an email from the school I applied to saying they are not qualified to sponsor student visa. I had not enough time to find another school in such a short time and not enough money either.

We cry, with my girlfriend, and after much denial, we agree I should go back to my home-country again to work for a bit and apply for another school and visa from here.

I know it's for a better future for the two of us, but I can't help, but think that, had I looked more deeply into the school I applied to, we would not have ended in that position (I did ask many time over the phone if they could sponsor me, which they afreed on, but I've now learned not to take anything I hear on the phone for facts)

Now, I'm so depressed over the fact that I won't be able to hold her and see her beautiful face, and go to sleep by her side, or just do simple things like watching dumb TH shows together for the next few months. I use to have nightmares about LDR after closing the distance and we used to say: "It's alright. It's never happening ever again."

How do you cope with seeing someone every single day for so many months and then being back to square one?

TLDR: Just dropped my girlfriend at the airport after living for 7 months together. Going into a second long-distance partially because of my own mistakes and hating myself for it.