What's your definition?

[ItalianAngel]

I always thought a relationship at least 3 years would be considered to be "long term".

 

[ANurseInChrist]

It depends on what you do with your time when you are together and working on the relationship.
You can be together for years and not know each other or you can be together for a short time and take in a world of information about each other.
I don't feel that time should be a huge factor, but what you do with that time that speaks on how "long-term" a relationship is.

 

[ClausJohn]

I don't believe classifying relationships into long-term or short-term. They will either end or not (technically, all of them end at some point ), and only then you can maybe count how long it lasted and give a name to the length of it.

 

[Briseis]

The term 'long term' is obviously talking about length, if you are in a serious relationship, that would be called a 'serious relationship'. Anyway, imo, long-term is after 9 months or so.

 

[courtneyhedum]

i'd have to agree with pepperfish on this one. it doesn't necessarily depend on how long you've been dating, but it depends on where you want the relationship to go. if you're old enough to the point where you two are considering marriage, then it's going to be a long term relationship - because you're going to be sticking with that person until the very end (well, after the marriage actually takes place, of course). another definition i believe for the situation could be, for example, if you and your boyfriend are in high school, and you plan on staying together throughout college - even if you haven't discussed marriage at this point yet. you know that you want to stay together for at least that long - so, at least for some time, it's going to be long term.

 

[Ceili]

I tend to not think in terms of time,days,months or years. I say long term and see a road and he's in it and there's a lifeline of forever involved so longterm to me means something totally different than it does to others. I've never said longterm until now.

 

[Blank123]

to me long term means the length of the relationship. A lot of relationships start out with the intention of being long term yet last only a couple of months so i wouldn't label those long term. i suppose in this day and age 6 months is considered long term to a lot of people but that just seems to short to be considered long term to me, 6 months goes by so fast - and the couple is usually still in the honeymoon/infatuation stage by then. i think if you can make it to 2 years you're definitely long term

 

[alfrodull]

I don't know...I was engaged to my fiance after knowing him five months, which, relatively, is a pretty short time. Does that mean we were never in a long term relationship?

I think it has more to do with intent. Time is a factor, because people (hopefully) take some time before committing to one another, but I don't think it's JUST time.

 

[xmoongirlx]

I feel after a year it's considered! =)