My long-distance experience was unsatisfactory. I dated someone in another state for 4 months. From the beginning, I was honest about the financial burden traveling to him would be in terms of gas, oil changes, etc. He promised to pay for the 2 tanks of gas each time I came to see him and offered to come up now and then himself. In the end, he owed me $300 for gas and only came up once. Having a young child, which I was also up front about, seemed to be a problem for him as my time was limited to every other weekend. He was dissatisfied that I wasn't service oriented, although I told him I wasn't, and didn't clean his 4000 sq. ft. house after my 5-hour drive. This was in spite of the fact that he was semi-retired and had all week to clean it himself whereas our time together was limited.

My advice is don't waste your precious time or resources if his actions in person don't match his words.