How to manage time while you are in a long-distance relationship
A long-distance relationship advice
This age of Video calls and messengers shows that maintaining a long-distance relationship would be easier than earlier now.
There are four major challenges for long-distance relationships:
1. Trust
Trust is playing a significant role in keeping any relationship. In the long-distance as partners rarely meet, so the question of trust arises between them. You don’t know what your significant other is up to.
Let yourself trust — and earn that trust yourself.
2. Communication
There’s always a barrier between you when talking to your partner. Due to advancement in technology, we can use various modes to communicate with the partner. Some of them are partner calls, video calls, text messages, graphic messages, love themes, emoticons etc. It's advisable to use each method to avoid the feeling of distance.
Apart from modes of communication, the message transmit must be clear to understand to avoid the situation of chaos.
3. Activities
Usually, partners who reside near enjoy some activities which help them feel special. But in the distance, No in-person cooking, going to the gym, holding hands in the park, or anything that involves closeness!
60% of couples in a long-distance relationship will stay together.
4. Take the Love Language Quiz
Do you or your partner value quality time? Quality time lovers need to spend the most time with each other.
Love to hear words of affirmation? Make sure you’re getting the words you want to feel loved. You may need to hear from your significant other how much you’re loved for reassurance, or want compliments from your partner to feel unique and special.
There are specific considerations that will make a healthy distant relationship.
1. Be Committed to the Relationship-
It’s about time value when we Prioritise our schedules well and fix a common time to communicate. It's really important to understand the depth of a relationship by committing. When both commit to each other in all manner and follow the common time decided, it will lead to a healthy bond.
2. Don’t rely solely on technology.-
Technology helps to communicate better in distant relations but it will not create a personal touch. The personal touch is the heartbeat of every relationship and can be maintained by fixing short meets or arrange gifts for each other.
As we all know the frequency of meets is very less in distance relation, gifts play a great role to show love/feel special to another person even when both are far away.
3. Reframe the situation as a positive — and believe in it.
Given the positives that accompany some long-distance relationships, it may very well make sense to celebrate your situation as something that can bring benefits despite its drawbacks.
Respect the reason why you’re apart. Instead of cribbing that both are in a long-distance relationship, we draw the benefits of such situation like waiting for calling time, craze and excitement develop in case of gifts, planning for short meets etc.
4. Do Stuff Together Even Though You’re Apart
When we are apart, we can feel a sense of togetherness also. We can think of the tasks or activities in which we can involve each other. Finding common interest is the best way to do it.
For instance, Giving a video call to a partner while cooking his favourite dish. Another can be helping a partner in arranging things in an organised manner by smart techniques. Another way is helping in promoting the content created by one through others social profiles etc.
5. Use this time to get to know them well
The time we get in a distant relation is utilised to know each other in a better manner. You can count such as a courtship period, apart from knowing both love, understanding, compatibility will develop through fun activities. Count Down The Days Until You’re Reunited.
The more you get involved in communications, the better it is to create a perfect bond.
6. Remind your partner frequently what you love about your relationship.
If both will frequently discuss what they find best in their love bond, it will strengthen and maintain the relationship.
One doesn't need to wait for others to initiate such reminders. Anyone can do so to make the other person realise how special they are for each other.
Such reminders will act as a-pillars to their love relationship.
7. Learn how to address important issues both remotely and in person.
Distant relations are tough to maintain as remotely many issues were developed a mess. Both must act maturely and before getting any conclusion, must give a chance to others to explain once.
