If you’re in a long distance relationship, chances are you’ve wondered at least once whether your partner might cheat on you, right? Well, I’ve got good news and bad news for you. Let’s start with the good news… I wouldn’t take …
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 (not to …
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 …
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 …
Long Distance Relationship Moments That Make You Laugh
In two days, Mike and I will end this year’s long distance marathon – almost six months of the year has been spent apart! To celebrate, I thought I’d write a “just for fun” post. To kick it off, my …
Silver Linings: Things to Like About Long Distance Love
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. …
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 …
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.
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