Love, Dating, Relationships and Disability

With the right commitment and communication, long distance relationships can actually be more stable than geographically close relationships. Since you won’t be seeing each other in person, it’s important to establish and maintain an emotional connection as often as you can. These don’t always have to be long, in-depth conversations.

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When we had to work for it Skype, email, video messages, etc , we treasured what the other person said more. Oh, your boyfriend of three years is going to college out-of-state? You can do it! Distance makes the heart grow stronger. It would be a nice sentiment if the speaker wasn’t really thinking: I give them four months. However, a study in the Journal of Communications has shown that absence might truly make the heart grow fonder and that couples who participate in a healthy long-distance relationship can have more meaningful interactions than couples who see each other daily To read the Huffington Post article, click here.

Science aside, my husband and I both agree that the year and a half of long distance did the most to strengthen our relationship. Every time I tell someone that doing the whole “long distance relationship” thing actually strengthened my relationship, they laugh. I don’t blame them. But before you judge your friends in long distance relationships, check out these nine ways that long distance relationships can help, rather than hurt, a couple: The knowledge that if you survive the distance, your relationship can survive anything.

Once upon a time, boy met girl, they fell in love, and lived happily ever after in the same house for the next three generations. Between study abroad, job transfers, the ” two body problem ,” and a million other reasons for couples to live in different cities, long distance relationships are becoming a viable alternative to breaking up.