I’ve written before about the benefits of long distance relationships – focusing on all that serious stuff about how being in a long distance relationship for a season can help you learn how to communicate well … yada yada yada. …
Q&A with Emily Burt
On Friday Emily will share a great post called Not just about you: long distance relationships as part of a network with us. I can’t wait. See you back here then. In the meantime, here’s a bit more about her …
Creating a long distance relationship bucket list
Have you heard of the term ‘bucketlist’? It basically means creating a list of things to do before you “kick the bucket” (or, to put it more bluntly, die). Everyone’s list is different. It may include extravagant things and big …
Communication on the go: Skype and smartphones apps
Effective communication is vital to the success of any relationship, but it’s especially important in long distance relationships – after all, it’s all you have a lot of the time. These days, with a little help from technological advancements such …
Two Continents and a Baby: Coping with early parenthood in long distance relationships
I’m back, and delighted to announce that in the last couple of weeks our little family has grown in numbers. Alexander McKay Wolfe made his appearance on Saturday August 10th. If you don’t count two failed epidurals and 9 hours …
5 Tips for Communicating Well While You’re Apart
Here’s the fourth installment in our series by @morealtitude about long distance relationships. He’s blogging from Ethiopia on a long-term work assignment while wife and child are at home in Australia. If you missed them, check out the first three …
Dreaded Departures: Four Things To Do Before You Leave To Ease Partings
How much do we all hate saying goodbyes?? If you’re in a good relationship and you’re leaving the person you love at the gate (or in the driveway), a lot. Farewells are one of the worst parts about being in …
Planning Ahead For Time Apart In Long Distance Relationships
1. Limit time apart and, whenever possible don’t exceed your “reasonable maximum”.
Limiting time apart is a total no-brainer, but what counts as your “reasonable maximum” will vary from couple to couple. For us, three weeks is our acceptable limit, and a lot of couples I know work by the three-week rule as well. It tends to strike a balance between what families can handle and what people actually need to do their work overseas.
Circumstances beyond our control have meant that Madame InsideOut. and I are apart for longer this time, but we’ve generally been pretty good at sticking to the three-week thing. This is for both our sakes, as we generally find our coping ability matches pretty well. Ten days we can take in our stride. Things get painful around the 2 week mark, and by 2 ½ weeks we’re both pretty much done. We’ll push 3 if we have to, but we don’t like it. Love is becoming increasingly international. It’s easier to meet people from other countries, whether in person or online, and to conduct long distance relationships via webcam and instant messaging. But the proliferation of international relationships means that at some point … How many times have you heard that one of the biggest benefits of being in a long distance relationship is that it forces you to communicate? It’s true. Communication in relationships is a tricky topics, but one thing is for …
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