My first girlfriend in Finland didn't speak much English, and me managed for a few months in her broken English, my broken Finnish, and a dictionary.
It seems that for a while you lived my dream- I wanted an international relationship in the past. But neither my english or my finances were good enough to make that happen. Now I think that I will no longer try long distance thing. It is too complicated.
But in order to do that, we'd have to give up our cherished and meaningless identities, like our nationality, and perhaps even our language
I wonder if people would be less divided if everyone spoke one language. Most likely not. Humans would probably find something else to argue about.
Long distance never works. It is a pipedream.
The narcissism of small differences. We will keep dividing until all we are are individual atoms.