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What is something you should know before having a distance romantic relationship ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by bigEgoAndILoveJazz@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 1 points 1 year ago

It’s going to be hard. I’ve tried it once when I had been with someone for eight months, and it didn’t work. But, I’ll give you some of the things that did seem to help at least:

If your relationship is physical yet, try finding ways to explore that over Zoom/FaceTime while away
Do things together at the same time. Like watch the same tv show/movie at the exact same time and text back and forth during it to comment on what is going on. I think Apple has some feature like that that I haven’t tried, but you don’t need that, you just need to start the show at the same time.
Same thing for books or video games.
Communicate. You or your partner will need space at times. Let that be okay and let it be okay to communicate that need.

Good luck to you.