How to Make Your Long Distance Relationship Work?

However, no contact for most of every day can make the other partner feel disinclined or forgotten when you’re apart.

You don’t have to call every hour, but a simple ‘good morning, have a great day’ message or a lunch break phone-call can help to maintain a bonded connection. You can call your partner also when driving to work, and then have longer conversations in the evenings.

Managing your expectations in a long distance relationship

On the flip side of this, we must ensure we are reasonable with our expectations of a long distance relationship. Perhaps our partner is an emergency worker and therefore expecting a specific time for a daytime phone-call would be impossible and unreasonable to expect.

In such instances, reassurance must be provided elsewhere. Such as a dedicated promise to catch up properly in the evening or at a weekend when you won’t be competing for attention.

Establish your ground rules with one another and be clear about your schedule so that each partner feels included and considered.

Here’s a run-down of some easy tips to allow your long distance relationship to thrive, regardless of distance:

1. De-tech to reconnect

Realistically, we are all going to turn to digital devices to help us communicate with our partner when they are far away. Voice notes, video calls, text messages and e-mail are all handy tools.

However, there is something incredibly special about receiving physical mail in the post. Handwritten letters and thoughtful parcels are a welcome change from technology and will provide each of you with something tactile that you can keep and look at when you’re missing one another. You may touch, feel and even smell your loved one who has prepared the package only for you. What could be more touching in these days when we are living in a world of machines?