As anyone who has ever been in a long-distance relationship can tell you, such a situation is one of the most trying things that a couple can go through.
What once seemed like a healthy, committed, and stable relationship can be put to the test by distance.
Perhaps your significant other gets into grad school in Portland, but your work requires you to stay in western Oregon.
Or maybe you met on a semester abroad or a temporary work assignment, and all of the sudden you are required to part after only a few short months together.
Your love is strong, but distance can test even the most enduring bonds.
The loneliness caused by separation, the petty jealousies, and the fact that you simply are not involved in each other´s daily lives can be too much for many.
But if you are committed to making it work, the good news is that modern technologies like wireless Internet and 4G cell phones actually make it easier than ever.
Twenty years ago, if a couple wanted to carry out a long distance relationship, they would have to make long-distance phone calls to landlines in order to stay in contact.
That´s right, you could not simply call your loved one´s cell phone when you felt like a brief chat.
The two of you would have had to set up a specific time for a phone date, and then pay the phone bill when it came at the end of the month.
Even calls from one end of the state to the other could rack up a bill! With 4G cell phones, you can call or text each other whenever you want, as if you were in the exact same city without any extra charges.
This allows you to stay in closer contact, because you do not have to maintain your relationship through overly-planned phone dates.
You can simply chat when you feel like it.
The ubiquity of wireless Internet has also made it much easier to keep the spark alive.
In addition to being able to email each other at will and keep in touch via various social networking pages, you can also instant message your significant other throughout the day.
With services like Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, AIM, and GChat, you can keep a chat window open throughout the workday.
Once again, you will feel like you are living in the same city, because it is these small, ostensibly mundane ways of communication that make up a relationship in which two people are living in the same city.
Your communication will feel casual.
You will talk when you want to.
You can keep up with the details of your life as they happen, so that you do not have to leave it all to some all-important conversation.
Wireless Internet also gives you access to video messaging services like Skype.
If you have a camera and a mic built into your computer, or if you go to your local electronics store and spring for a cheap webcam/headphones set, you can talk to each other in real time as if you were face-to-face.
What once seemed like a healthy, committed, and stable relationship can be put to the test by distance.
Perhaps your significant other gets into grad school in Portland, but your work requires you to stay in western Oregon.
Or maybe you met on a semester abroad or a temporary work assignment, and all of the sudden you are required to part after only a few short months together.
Your love is strong, but distance can test even the most enduring bonds.
The loneliness caused by separation, the petty jealousies, and the fact that you simply are not involved in each other´s daily lives can be too much for many.
But if you are committed to making it work, the good news is that modern technologies like wireless Internet and 4G cell phones actually make it easier than ever.
Twenty years ago, if a couple wanted to carry out a long distance relationship, they would have to make long-distance phone calls to landlines in order to stay in contact.
That´s right, you could not simply call your loved one´s cell phone when you felt like a brief chat.
The two of you would have had to set up a specific time for a phone date, and then pay the phone bill when it came at the end of the month.
Even calls from one end of the state to the other could rack up a bill! With 4G cell phones, you can call or text each other whenever you want, as if you were in the exact same city without any extra charges.
This allows you to stay in closer contact, because you do not have to maintain your relationship through overly-planned phone dates.
You can simply chat when you feel like it.
The ubiquity of wireless Internet has also made it much easier to keep the spark alive.
In addition to being able to email each other at will and keep in touch via various social networking pages, you can also instant message your significant other throughout the day.
With services like Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, AIM, and GChat, you can keep a chat window open throughout the workday.
Once again, you will feel like you are living in the same city, because it is these small, ostensibly mundane ways of communication that make up a relationship in which two people are living in the same city.
Your communication will feel casual.
You will talk when you want to.
You can keep up with the details of your life as they happen, so that you do not have to leave it all to some all-important conversation.
Wireless Internet also gives you access to video messaging services like Skype.
If you have a camera and a mic built into your computer, or if you go to your local electronics store and spring for a cheap webcam/headphones set, you can talk to each other in real time as if you were face-to-face.
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