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4 Ways To Survive A Long-Distance Relationship

By Hello Beautiful July 20, 2009 1:30 pm

If you are in a long-distance relationship, or are about to transition into one, my heart goes out to you for all the sacrifices you have to make and the unique challenges you have to endure.

Here are 4 tips to help you make it work from intent.com:

1. Skype is Your Best Friend. You can drop a lot of money on long-distance overseas phone calls. Or you can download Skype for free with your significant other and talk as much as you possibly can. If you don’t have a MacBook, an extra investment in a webcam and a microphone is totally worth it.

2. This is Your Perfect Excuse to Make Cute Care Packages and Send Letters. Making care packages is fun. So is receiving them. There are few things more gratifying than fillingl a box with goofball gifts and delicious foreign snacks and mailing it off with the happy knowledge that it would make the recipient very happy in the following week.

Define the relationship before it’s too late

3. Experience New Places as a Couple. Being in Japan gave my boyfriend the incentive to travel to another country for the first time ever to come visit me. Though being in a long-distance relationshp was hard, we at least made the most of it by making great couple memories in exciting locations that otherwise would not have ever happened if I didn’t ever go to Japan: like biking through downtown Kyoto at night, indulging in great street food in Tokyo, and exploring the crazy night markets in Taipei. Consider your long-distance relationship as an exciting opportunity to travel to new places as a couple.

4. Have the Best Social Support System Ever. Not having your significant other around when you really need to talk to the person the most is one of the hardest challenges in a long-distance relationship. This is why it is more crucial than ever to make sure that you also have your friends and family you can really open up to. The last thing you want is to begin resenting your significant other or the situation for not being more convenient to your emotional needs.

Continue Reading 7 Ways to Survive the Long-Distance, Long-Term Romantic Relationship on intent.com

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TAGS: long distance, relationships, Skype, Social Network
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  • wirehoncho
    wirehoncho
    7-21-2009 5:40 am

    This sounds to me like it is written for the person that is trying to hold one down with someone living in the military, because this is all very text book! The same applies for people tht have never spent one day in a set of combat boots because distance, being alone for extended periods of time not being with your significant other will place a serious strain on you mentally.
    In that case I will give me own step: Wait!
    most tours of duty are about 1-3 years, and deployments are usually less than 8 months, if you trying to hold it down, just be friends and then see where it goes from there. I ave seen dozens if not hundred of cases in my 12 years of globe trotting where it didn’t work, and I can say that technology it not the key, it’s commitment! And most people do not have a clue to what that really means.

  • 63TMB
    63TMB
    7-20-2009 5:29 pm

    get a woman on the side is the best way

  • DAREALRECKLESS
    DAREALRECKLESS
    7-20-2009 4:32 pm

    lots of webcam sex and free long distance!

  • DAREALRECKLESS
    DAREALRECKLESS
    7-20-2009 1:47 pm

    booooooooooooooooooo

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