Thanks for your responses, guys.
Sorry for the confusion on the relationship: The receptionist is my 'boyfriends' sister in law. The
receptionist's sister is my massage therapist (sorry I threw that one in there, it was irrelovant to my story! furthering confusion...
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AnnaC: He is a welder and just opened his own shop with his brother in the Dominican (I've seen the business cards, so I'm sure it exists). I haven't been to the Dominican ever. I guess I was open to being set up with someone I didn't know because for some reason I trusted his sister in law, she seems really genuine and we just clicked really well and she said that him and I would get along well. (Am I sounding severly naive right now??)
Another thing is: I've had past long distance relationships and made the mistake of being the one to visit him first, and I told myself that in the future, it would have to be the man come to see me first.....I feel I've been trying to justify this in this case seeing as I live in a free country and am able to leave whenever I want, without the hassle of a visitors visa etc.....but I'm thinking now of saying to him that if I'm as important to him as he says I am....he can find a way, hell or high water, to come and see me, if he's being sincere about this.....