Long Distance Relationship Advice

As a rule of thumb giving out good dating advice can be difficult, but giving long distance relationship advice is even more difficult to do. Despite what you may have heard, long distance relationships can work (it happens every day) but it can sometimes be a pretty crazy situation to be in. When you are thousands of miles away from the person you are in love with, it has a way of really playing with your mind.  Jealousy problems, questions of trust, difficulties with communication, and every other type of relationship dating problems that people encounter are greatly compounded by the distance apart.

As an individual who has been in a successful long-term relationship with a beautiful person from across the country, many people have asked me how to make a long distance relationship work. It's difficult to break down into an exact formula, but I can give you some simple long distance relationship advice that has worked well for many people. Good communication is vital if you want this to work out. Explain to your partner how you feel, listen to how they feel, and openly share the little details that make up your life. Your obviously not able to have physical intimacy with someone who lives thousands of miles away, but you can make up for this with additional amounts of emotional intimacy. Make enough time, a couple of days a week, so the two of you can talk for hours. This will help you feel closer to your partner. If you lived with your partner, you would be spending many hours with them anyway.

Go see the person and have an enjoyable time together. This is the most important piece of long distance relationship advice I can tell anyone. This is advice is very important for several reasons. For starters, it will nourish your relationship. Being unable to see the person you're crazy in love with can make you insane, and spending some time alone with each other can really do wonders to lift your mood. But even more importantly, it can help you make a decision as to weather or not you are being realistic about your relationship.

You have to understand, there are many people who get involved in long distance relationships simply because it gives them a degree of emotional distance. It's very easy to play games with someone who lives thousands of miles away, and even easier to pretend that the two of you are a perfect match together. But when you actually spend some time with that person, it just might not work out. This is why the most important piece of long distance relationship advice I can tell anyone is to actually spend some time with that person. Take the time to get to know what he or she is like in person. After you have spent many hours together you'll start to realize if the two of you are really compatible. Sometimes, what might appear to be a great idea when you both live in different cities, doesn't turn out to be so great when you finally meet face to face. The best long distance relationship advice in the world will not do you a bit of good if your merely dating the wrong person.