Are you in a long distance relationship where you or your partner has children? Are you raising children far away from family and friends who are important to you? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, you’ve …
7 Ways To Help Your Family Get To Know Your Partner When You’re In A LDR
A couple of months ago, my little sister announced her engagement to a man she has known for just six months–a man I have never met. I live in Hong Kong and the rest of my family, including my sister …
14 Smart Tips For Planning A Wedding In A Long Distance Relationship
Planning a wedding can be tough. Sure, it’s a super-happy time of life. After all, you’re getting married! To your best friend! But while it might be a super-happy time, it also tends to be a super-busy time. There are …
7 Practical Tips To Help Children Cope Better With Having A Parent Away
“I don’t want YOU!” my three-year-old thrashed and screamed at bedtime one winter night in January. “I WANT DAD!” We’d just had a nice, long stretch of having my husband home. Then he was gone again, leaving me alone with …
Long Distance Reunions: How to Keep Your Relationship from Imploding After You Reunite
“When I’m gone, you seem happy and fine, but when I get home you’re mad all the time,” my husband complained a couple weeks after he returned from a long deployment. “I’m not mad. I’m frustrated,” I shot back at …
For Love And Money: Questions That Couples Should Answer Before Getting Married
My last two articles discussed how to talk about money in a new long distance relationship and how to talk about money in a committed long distance relationship. We covered important questions to go over with a long distance lover …
Giving Up My Planned Romantic Formula For A (Very) Long Distance Relationship
When I imagined my ideal relationship trajectory when I was a starry-eyed ten-year-old girl, I had some kind of “formula” in mind: Get to know each other for a year, date for a year, get engaged for a year, then …
8 Practical Tips For Coping With Deployments And Other Long-Term Separations
Long distance—DON’T WANT THAT. That was my first reaction when I met Chris. I knew he was in the military, and sharing my life with someone who was planning to miss a lot of it of it wasn’t my idea …
Making It Easier: Coping With Being Left Behind By A Traveling Spouse
Last week we talked about the challenges of being the one left behind by a partner who travels regularly for work. It’s easy enough to pinpoint challenges. It can be harder to come up with ways to stay healthily connected …
When You Are The One Left Behind By A Traveling Spouse
Today, I’m excited to bring you the first installment from a good friend of mine. MissInsideOut is married to MoreAltitude, who we heard a fair bit from with his series in August. MoreAltitude, a humanitarian worker, shared from the perspective …
Staying Connected With Family And Friends When You Live Far Away
In this day and age, many of us aren’t just in long distance relationships with our romantic partners. In an era of moving to attend college or find work, many of us live in a different state (or even country) …
6 Tips For Coping Well With Long Distance Time In Your Marriage
This is the 5th installment in our series by @morealtitude. He’s blogging from Ethiopia on a long-term work assignment while wife and child are at home in Australia. If you missed them, you can find Parts 1-4 here: Celebrating Two …
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