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Alrighty, lovespink88 needs some tips on how to make an LDR more bearable.
We live a few states away. It's a 2 hour plane ride (15 hour car ride...not gonna do that). We try to flight out as much as possible but I'm trying to save vacay days for the wedding next year and he just really can't take time off, since's a teacher. Flights are also $300-$450 each, so that adds up quickly!
We talk as much as we can but his first year of teaching has proven to be extremely demanding. He's a huge perfectionist and therefore, he's not a quick worker (not that this is a bad thing at all!) Take that and add it to the fact that he's also coaching and he is easily working 65 hours a week. So because of this, our communication from Mon-Thu is limited to a few texts, usually just a few before bed every night. We do usually get to make up for it over the weekend--we'll spend anywhere from 6-10 hours total video chatting over the entire weekend.
Any other tips for what we can do to help ease the pain of the distance? In particular, I'd like to think of things I can do to cheer him up. Yes, I'm down about this too, but I'm thankful that I have my family and friends to support me. He's currently living in a town where he doesn't know a soul, and I can tell the loneliness is getting to him, which breaks my heart.
Here's what we've been doing so far:
- videochatting
- watching movies/TV series together while video chatting (lol, just tried this out yesterday, actually worked pretty well!)
- playing online games together, anything that's multiplayer that we can keep up and still keep video chat going in the background to talk works well
THANK GOD FOR TECHNOLOGY, btw...
I also sent him a care package when he first moved out there and I just bought a bunch of fun cards to send and I'm going to try to send one a week.
People in LDRs (or who have been in LDRs) what did you do to make the distance easier?
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