Your Guide to Long Distance Relationships

Long distance relationships can cause stress and problems between partners. Seeking relationship advice on how to deal with your emotions is a way to ensure that your relationship remains healthy and that it lasts through the times separation.

Um..I've been in an LDR before an my bf is moving this summer and he doesn't wanna do an LDR but he's gonna be here nearly every weekend what I gonna do? I still want to be with him but he's not willling to sacrifice and stay with me because he says he has to be able to spend time with his gf and he only gets to see me about 3 times a week on average anyway... I don't understand him!

I think it's important to have a plan for when the two of you will no longer be long distance (e.g. when you're finished school, when you find a job close to one another, etc.). The two of you may find it hard right now, but you'll both know that and find comfort in the fact that you'll be together physically eventually.

As great as you may get along together over the phone, email, skype, etc... visits are crucial. It's nice to have something to count down to. To make the countdown a bit more fun, I personalize pictures for my boyfriend of the number of days left until we\'re together again. Sometimes I make the number a little harder to find ;)

If you both want to be together and are willing to make some sacrifices for the relationship, you've got a future. This is the same for any relationship, not just LDR.

I'm in an LDR and finding it really hard. I think I still love my partner but I'm finding the temptation to cheat harder and harder to resist with time. He's such a lovely man, he adores me and he would be heartbroken if I ever did. I would feel absolutely terrible, but I keep getting very strong flashes of attraction to male friends here (always accentuated by alcohol/dancing, rather unsurprisingly - since going out for a friend's birthday at the weekend and getting drunk and not being able to stop myself flirting a little with one of my friends I can't stop thinking about him. I feel incredibly guilty) Also I don't trust these new temptations, I think it's more a projection of my feelings for my boyfriend onto people around me and just the need to have physical contact with someone. Help! Just needed to get this off my chest really but if anyone does have any tips on how to overcome temptation I would be most grateful. I don't want to throw my LDR away.

i´m in a LDR for two and a half year. I´m starting to fell it going downhill. I also used to think positive, but we still have no perspective of living together after all this time. I'm really trying to figure out what to do. This article gave me a little hope.