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 …
Memoir of a long distance relationship wins literary award
A couple of weeks ago I received a fun email. My memoir, Love at the Speed of Email was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Life Stories category of the 21st Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.
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 …
Long Distance Love: 10 Things You Can’t Underestimate (II)
Welcome back to our two part series by Steffani Taylor on ten things you can’t underestimate when it comes to long distance love! If you missed the first post in this series you can catch it here. Now, for items …
Long Distance Love: 10 Things You Can’t Underestimate (I)
A long-distance relationship is not for the faint of heart. It’s not the ideal for any relationship, however, modern times and our ability to hop around the globe today for work, missions, or luxury travel, mean some of us end …
Moving continents or moving worlds? Closing the gap between France and Australia in a long distance relationship (and what I learned about cultural differences along the way)
I had always wanted to live in France, so that desire coincided rather nicely with meeting a Frenchman while he was working in my home country of Australia. When his visa expired, we’d only been together for a short time …
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 …
Celebrating two years of marriage, a world apart
My wife and I just celebrated our two-year wedding anniversary.
By celebrated, I mean, we shared a 25-minute Skype chat via grainy video, which had to be curtailed fairly promptly after staff started queuing outside my office door, waiting to be let in. It was a fairly frustrating experience for me (and even more so for my wife if the expression in her voice was anything to go by as we hung up).
Even a couple of months ago this was certainly not how either of us envisaged sharing our second wedding anniversary. Back then, we were all planning on being here together in Ethiopia as I started my new position. Juggling two careers and getting key dates to coincide, however, has proven tricky. Juggling custody issues and travel permissions related to my stepdaughter has proven even more so. Now we a full hemisphere apart.
Moving Abroad For A Partner
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 …