Prepare for the hardest six months of your life.
My husband (yes, we are now married) remembers none of it – the crying, the fighting, the fear that we may not be meant for each other after all – while I remember several hard moments. Bottom line: Understand that if you're relocating for love it’s not going to be the fairytale you expected. Finally living in the same city will not guarantee that you’ll live happily ever after.

Get a life.
Yes, you made a decision to relocate based on a guy, but you weren’t sold to him as a mail order bride. Set yourself up like you would anywhere else. Go out and get a life. When relocating for love, you often forget that you need to work on your own life because his is easily accessible. Rinat realized that the hard way. "It was me always needing him, running after him, after his friends, after his life, instead of my own life. But everything changed after I started volunteering, made my own friends, found work and my life became full. After that our relationship changed completely. I was a person, not a shadow.”