Does love REALLY make a comeback after long time apart?

[Kim]

Long story short, met and dated a man for over 3 years. In April of 2011 I had a lot of problems with work, survival and just life issues so I decided to come back to my hometown. We stayed in contact but last April 2012 he found him a honey and got all serious. Facebook page had him and her all over it. I knew nothing of it becasue he just all of a suddden stopped talking to me. I looked up his page and there they were. So, I moved on and got over it. I was happy he was happy, but I still loved him very much. His relationship with the cookie did not last, it lasted for a whole 4 months. After about 2 weeks of that breakup, he calls me and says he realizes that he wants what we had, he misses me and loves me. He says that me not being there in his state drove him to lonliness, and quite honest, he needed sex, hence his realtionship with her. I get that, but Im wondering if Im making a mistake by being ready to uproot from here, and move back to be with him. my question is: Can love make us lose one another, only to find that we really do love one another ? Can this not be a rebound for him, or is it ? I always had in my mind that he would get over this thing with the cookie and return to me. I just let him play it out and waitied to see if he would return. So, im wondering if Im not making a mistake and if I should break it off, and move on without him. Can love test us, and make us stronger ? BTW we started dating in 2008, I moved out of state in 2011, we kept in contact than the thing with his cookie started in april 2012, ended this past september.
WE have been apart since April 2011, approx 18 months.
Weekend visits are a good idea, but he lives in Calif, I am in Michigan, he owns a company and is a single father so traveling is expensive and time consuming. I am the one with no ties so it makes sense for me to return to Calif where I have a sister I can start out with. Here in Mich I have no family, its just my hometown so coming back here when I had all my troubles made sense at the time. During my leave from Cali, we talked amost every day. He got lonely, horney and thought he found someone he could be a family with, hence the cookie with kids. He says it was a mistake, she was crazy and a drunk. He ended the relationship.
Weekend visits are a good idea, but he lives in Calif, I am in Michigan, he owns a company and is a single father so traveling is expensive and time consuming. I am the one with no ties so it makes sense for me to return to Calif where I have a sister I can start out with. Here in Mich I have no family, its just my hometown so coming back here when I had all my troubles made sense at the time. During my leave from Cali, we talked amost every day. He got lonely, horney and thought he found someone he could be a family with, hence the cookie with kids. He says it was a mistake, she was crazy and a drunk. He ended the relationship.

[Hannah]

Distance can make you realize what you really want or need. It is possible but do not give up everything where you are now. Take it slow. A few weekend visits maybe. See where it goes from there.