When my wife and I met playing video games online (back in 1998, before it was cool), we lived about a thousand miles apart, and maintained a relationship over that distance for about 3 years before we finally got married and moved to the same state.

I initially worried her grandparents wouldn't approve of starting a relationship online. It turns out they were reminded of their own relationship -- courting through letters during the war.

Relationships happen. So do significant life/world events that can separate people by vast distances.