Next up, we’re doing a story about how you use technology to keep your long distance love strong. Do you set up your webcams and sit down to a virtual meal together? Do you skype every night?
Tell us a story about your long distance lover, your grandchild, or your internet crush.
Post your comments here and we’ll put them on the radio. Be sure to give a shout out to your love! What better way to let the world know you’re smitten…
My name is Sarah and my boyfriend, Addison of over a year is in the United States Air Force. I attend college in Cedar Falls, Iowa and he lives about 3,000 km away in California.
We don’t get to see each other that often, so we try to manipulate that through use of technology. We both have the same cellular provider, so we added unlimited mobile to mobile texting, talking, and multimedia messages to our plans. Almost every day, we take pictures of ourselves, or places that we go, or interesting things we see with our camera phones and then send them to one another. We also talk every single night on the phone. We’ve been long distance for almost a year now, so we’ve had quite a while to figure it out…Sometimes I make a list of our favorite songs and put them on a flash drive to send to him in the real snail mail, because that’s also always fun to receive. But without technology, we wouldn’t be able to communicate as easily. There would be no hearing his voice on the other line, or seeing his smiling face in a picture message. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to try to stay strong through long distance without the use of technology.
What a great story. I especially love the flash drive music story; virtual is great, but having a tangible object to hold and a letter to open is a wonderful idea.
Hi my name is Monica. my boyfriend and i have been going out for three years and i havent seen him for 17months already. having to move to north america and leave him behind in my hometown,manila is really hard for us because of the time distance and the long distance phone rates. yes,it gets hard sometimes having not to look into each other’s eyes and go out for a walk, but it teaches us to find ways of expressing our love in both actions and words. When i wake up it would be his bedtime, so we both make an effort by waking up extra early and he’ll be staying up late. We would go on and chat,sometimes talk over skype or Y!m, send emails, and on special days i would send videos. we’re really simple when it comes to long distance relationships. we dont send packages at all but when friends fly over to visit,we always have something for each other. From time to time we send photos of each other just to catch a smile or an update of how each other’s new haircut looks. when we have enough time, i plug in the webcam and write a few sweet notes and flash them (over the webcam) and smile. Our everyday routine is leaving each other offline messages whenever we dont catch each other. just one note would do for a day.I realized that if it werent for technology, it would have been so much harder. It helps keep our relationship alive. i hope that one day we may be able to visit each other again-find some time and some tickets, catch up on all the days we have spent apart and enjoy the things everyone should – having to see each other’s smile,look into each other’s eyes,walk hand in hand, and hug. other than that, what beats the greatness of technology in keeping our relationship alive is the love and trust that we have for each other. keep holding on, everyone!
wish you were here, i miss you
Watching TV together, with six hours separating us was one of my favourites. Sure, it lacked the intimacy of curling up together on the couch, but we’d often put on the same television show, and watch together, resulting in quite the hefty telephone bills. When you spend five years in a long distance relationship you get used to just talking all the time, via the phone, it was always nice to stay quiet for a half hour, with each of us laughing along to a television program, as if we were in the same room.
Hi,
My name is Marek and I live in Victoria with Erin.
This is our story.
- We met in Edmonton.
- She moved in after 3 weeks.
- She moved to Montreal for school. – We had slow computers.
- We had a calling plan.
- Most nights while talking on the phone, we played online chess or crib together.
- It was as close as we could get.
- 4 months later I moved to Montreal.
- Five years later, we’ve decided to get married (IRL).
Marek and Erin
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Hi,
I recently decided to continue my education after a 3 year hiatus. Unfortunately the program I wanted to take was in a different city. I am married and have a four year old son. This is the first time I have been away from either of them for any long period of time. It is hard. But one thing that has made it easier is the internet. I have a Macbook Pro and it has a webcam built in. I set up a webcam at my wife’s apartment and now I say goodnight to my son every night through Skype video chat. Virtual kisses and hugs only go so far though.
Thanks
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my name is jasmine ,me and my bf have met in iraq he was a sergeant in the US army, i can say we had feelings to each other that day ,i met him once there and got his number ,now after 5years we have been lovers ans he did ask me to marry him and i a gree for sure, we dating throuh internet long time ago ,i found nothing stop me to to say “yes”.i love that man and he loves me a well.
i want to get some advice that could keeps my realationship warm as it forever
thanks
longdistance lover
Hi! I am a lesbian 21 years old, I met this girl(19years old) in a lesbian lounge in a network one day, since then I've been crazy about her. That was the first time I fell in love that fast. I really like her and I am pretty sure she feels the same coz she told me a thousand times. I am only seeing her through her pictures posted on myspace. She's sseing me through webcam. I am really in love with this girl but we seem to have a problem when it comes to distance. I am now in Dubai for a vacation, and she is living in Tacoma, Washington USA. I really wanna go there but It will be pretty hard to get a visa to be in that country. I am really dying to be with this person. At one point I really don't know how it will all work out. But I am happy since I met her. Even if it is not in person. I hope you can send me the perfect song about my story. and I hope she's listening to you too when you read this. Thanks for your time. Love lots, red.
Great posts with great ideas here. My boyfriend and I relied a lot on phone and email when we were doing long distance (we now live together… yay!). Calling cards can help to keep the long distance costs down. Another good idea is carrying a voice recorder with you… and then talking to your partner throughout the day and recording it. You can easily email the file (or send it on a USB) to share your thoughts (and voice). More great advice is available at http://www.coupledtogether.com/blog