5 Things You Should Not Do If You Have A Long Distance Relationship

Distance sometimes can be a main obstacle for some couples. However, in some circumstances, you cannot avoid it, either due to job restrictions, or financial constraints. I used to have a long distance relationship a while ago and I was so scared that distance would make our love fade away, which normally it would if you did not handle it properly. I educated myself with various articles regarding how to maintain, or even rejuvenate, a long distance relationship and came up with five tips as follows:
1. Leave your “Ego” behind. Do not trade compromise to feed your ego. This is a very crucial part as when you both are far away, it can be more difficult to understand each other. Also, you can both tend to overthink issues, even small matters can be misconstrued.
2. Spare sufficient time to keep in touch with each other every day. This includes texting, calling or video calls. Keeping in touch shows that you care about your partner and are ready to be available when needed. There are plenty of tools and technology nowadays to facilitate this, so please take advantage of them.
3. Do not lie, no matter what. This is the most important taboo for any relationship, especially a long distance one, as it is directly related to “Trust”. Trust is far more important when you both are far away. Remember that “Trust” takes time to build up and maintain, but it can be destroyed within seconds (by being caught out with a lie!)
4. Do not let anyone enter to your heart. When you both are far away, if you do not take care of your heart and let someone else come between you two, whether it is intentionally or unintentionally, your love life will definitely end up in an unpleasant way.
5. Set up a concrete, tangible plan to meet. It does not matter whether it is once a month, once a quarter or once a year. You two need to talk and share your thought about when you two will meet. If the distance is too far for one person to come over, meeting somewhere half way (distance) is considered a reasonable compromise. Saying like… “We will see each other whenever we have time”, “I’ll think about it later” or “I still not know about my job schedule yet”….will exacerbate the chance of spending time together. If you cannot spare your time for your love one, that means you are not serious enough to have that person in your life as your first priority.
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