“If you don’t cook me pizza for dinner, I’m not going to love you anymore.” This line was delivered to me convincingly last week… by my 5-year-old son. He is usually cuddly and cruisy and all sorts of adorable. But …
The Five Love Languages: What Do You Speak?
In his bestselling book, The 5 Love Languages, renowned marriage counselor Dr. Gary Chapman argued that people tend to have one or two primary love languages – words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. Chapman …
6 Options When It Feels Like There’s Nothing To Talk About With Your Long Distance Love
Do you ever get on the line with your long distance partner and feel like you have nothing to say? This was the situation I found myself in when my first child was born. Because of where we were living at …
10 Ways To Help Children Connect With Long Distance Family And Friends
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 …
How Do You Deal With Stress? 10 Important Questions For Couples To Answer
There are no two ways around it… being apart from the one person you most want to be spending time with is stressful. Learning to communicate well and stay connected across distance is stressful. And there are plenty of other …
The Hidden Skype Emoticons That Can Spice Up Your Online Dates
Do you feel limited by the sweet but over-used 🙂 emoticon on Skype? Looking for something slightly more edgy to express yourself? If so, this post about hidden skype emoticons is for you. I was reading a book on long …
4 Ways To Avoid The Pitfalls of Port Calls: Short Reunions and Long Distance Relationships
During the middle of my husband’s first long deployment with the Navy, I flew 11 hours from Tokyo to Perth (crossing the Equator for the first time!) so I could meet him at the docks for a reunion when he …
When The Rubber Meets The LDR Road: How Ground Rules In A Relationship Can Guide Action
Earlier this week, I shared three core values (or “ground rules”) that my husband and I based our three-year long-distance relationship on: 1) intentionality 2) honesty and vulnerability 3) being in the present, but planning for the future. These ground …
LDR Survival in the Technology Age
When we think about all that has changed in the world and, specifically, with technology, since we first met (and even since we wrote The Long-Distance Relationship Survival Guide), we sometimes wonder how couples ever managed long-distance relationships before texting, …
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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