Long Distance Relationships – Part 3

In Parts 1 and 2 of Long Distance Relationships, we examined how to communicate long distance and how to carry on sexually. In Part 3, we’ll look at traveling and appreciating a seldom appreciated part of any relationship.

Keep it Together

Then there comes a limit. You’ve been faithful, you’ve talked on the phone, emails, texts, you’ve skyped once a week for a month – you’ve still hit your limit. You need this person and you need them now. Enough of the distance, the thisses and the that’s – you need your partner and you need them now.

It’s time for a vacation!

When traveling to meet your significant other there are a few things to keep in mind:

  • This is Their Show: You are going to visit them, meaning they are the one showing you around. You are invading their space so you need to be cognizant of not messing up their routine. Which is not to say that you should sleep in the bathtub and cook every meal; but you should be sensitive to their schedule and the way they have to exist. I know you want to go and live in a love bubble with them – sorry, you’re both grown-ups with lives and things to do.
  • Short Trips and Weekdays: There are three types of trips in the relationship world: ones where you two are trying to get closer, ones where you two are trying to have fun and ones where you two are trying to repair something. In my book, the only trips that really work are the fun ones as the other two are too in-depth a process to deal with midst travel. Go out for a couple of days, just enough time to have a great couple of dates then be done. And a good note for the thrifty traveler – look for weekday and off-hour flights/travel accommodations. Taking a sick day to travel on a Thursday can be worth avoiding the headache of Friday flights.

Feelings are Good, Fear is Bad

Another thing to keep in mind while braving a long distance relationship is to relish the missing. We’ve all heard it before, but it is the truth: Absence makes the heart grow stronger. If you can find a way to allow your missing them inform more good feelings about them rather than inform a fear of impending disaster then you will be all the better for it. After all, life is not about getting your way – life is about finding your way.

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