skydiving and relationships

[skyglider 0]

I’m just wondering about people's experiences with having a committed relationship with someone who works or “lives” at your home drop zone. Any successes? Let's hear what worked. If it didn’t work and the other person has quickly moved on, how did you approach skydiving/ being broken up? Did you start jumping somewhere else?

[Douva 0]

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If it didn’t work and the other person has quickly moved on, how did you approach skydiving/ being broken up? Did you start jumping somewhere else?

I'm currently dealing with it by not skydiving. There's no animosity or bad blood between us; I just miss her too much to be around her right now. Also, an AFF instructor definitely needs to have his head in the game, and I figured out when I tried to jump yesterday that I definitely don't. So, I'm going to take off another week or two to recover. This definitely isn't something that's going to make me quit jump or leave all my great friends to start jumping somewhere else. Heck, I just signed a one year lease on a house twelve minutes from the drop zone, so I'm not going anywhere for a while.

I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names.

[skyglider 0]

[skybytch 273]

I work a half mile from the dz (on the airport) and I'm dating the guy who runs the loft (he also does AFF). It's great. We go to lunch together every day and jump together whenever we can.


There's not much that's better than sharing the sky with that special someone.

[skyglider 0]

I see that you've been in the sport a long time and to hear you're relationship is working for you is great to hear. What do you think makes it work given the challenges that the dz brings? Do you find that at your dz, you're one of the only ones who have seemed to figure it out? Or are there others that you know.

I always loved being in the sky with the one that had my heart.

[bbarnhouse 0]

There are lots of folks out here in long term relationsips with other skydivers.
Its not that different from anywhere else...people are people.