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Making a long distance relationship work takes a bit more work than a regular one does. For one thing you do not have as much one-on-one time to be reassured about how your partner feels about you.

You also are not sure when you will see each other again either. Your partner may not either communicate all their day-to-day activities for you to know what they are doing.

This all makes insecurity for one or both of you. So you have to be prepared for issues like this. Be truthful with yourself about how hard this might be for you to go through and talk to your partner about it. Examine what you need from the relationship too.

1 - If you are a needy person who needs the physical companionship often, this a long distance relationship may not be the one for you. Needy personality types do tend to get more insecure easier.

2 - Now if you are the independent type who likes some alone time, you could do quite well with a long distance relationship. So look inside yourself before agreeing to start a relationship of this kind.

3 - If you know you are going to be more suspicious, because your partner is not with you on a regular basis this could cause trouble.

4 - Also you may know you will just be too lonesome and sad without them close by and this too could be an issue.

You have to examine who you are and figure out what you want before trying out this kind of relationship. Once that is done, there are a few things you should and shouldn’t do to make the relationship strong.

1 - Do be independent and have a life of your own separate from your partner. This gives you more to share in conversations and e-mails with them. Your partner will be pleased that you are having a fulfilling life on your own without them. It actually takes some pressure off of them.

2 - Find fun ways to have dates even though you are far away from each other. Meet at one of the game sites and play cards or have webcam dinners together.

3 - Make time to go see your partner. A weekend trip will give you some special bonding moments. These moments can be simple or elaborate events.

4 - Don’t be insecure and overly clingy; remember it is hard for your partner to be away from you too. If you make this even more difficult by your actions they may change their mind on the relationship.

5 - Don’t let your mind run wild and start thinking that your partner is up to no good just because you can’t see them. Nothing will finish off a relationship faster than lack of trust.

6 - Don’t make you partner have a reason to mistrust you. Being apart is hard and they need to know you are loyal.

Hopefully through the information given here, you will know how to make a long distance relationship work. If you are willing to go for it you also now know what you should and should not do. This will enable you to have a strong relationship no matter how many miles part you are.

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When you and your lover are living miles apart, your hearts long for each other. You both are also constantly searching how to make your phone calls, e-mails, and other communications full of meaning and romance.

One way to keep things spiced up is with “long distance love poems“. These can be used to convey your feelings. Below are some ideas that may help you until you can write your own.

How Do I Love Thee?

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday’s

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Music, When Soft Voices Die

Music, when soft voices die,

Vibrates in the memory –

Odours, when sweet violets sicken,

Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,

Are heaped for the beloved’s bed;

And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,

Love itself shall slumber on. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

She Walks In Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent! ~ Lord Byron

Love’s Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river

And the rivers with the ocean,

The winds of Heaven mix for ever

With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single,

All things by a law divine

In one spirit meet and mingle -

Why not I with thine?

See the mountains kiss high heaven

And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower would be forgiven

If it disdained its brother;

And the sunlight clasps the earth,

And the moonbeams kiss the sea -

What are all these kissings worth

If thou kiss not me? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

How Far We Are!

How far we are from each other,

makes me have a heavy heart.

I don’t ever mean to smother,

I just don’t want to be apart. ~ Unknown Author

We Have a Sea

We have a sea between us,

but our love is side by side.

There is no need for a fuss,

cause you’ll come with the tide. ~ Unknown Author

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It is hard to be away from your special someone especially when you are in a long-distance relationship. There are times you may feel discouraged on this relationship and need to be soothed. Maybe some of the quotes will do the trick for you.

Long Distance Love Quotes:

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Aristotle

“So what if the distance is too long? What matters is that we have the courage of love to cover any distance which dares to separate us.” Ankush Sharma

“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” Gilbert Parker

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” Thomas Fuller

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Khalil Gibran

“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.”  Doug Fetherling

“Our minds travel over the miles betweens and connect.” Unknown

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”  Charlie Brown

“The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” Edward Thomas

“Our hearts fly through the air and find each other no matter where we are.” Unknown

“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. Kay Knudsen

“Separation exists only in human mind.” Rinon Hoxha

“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” Hans Nouwens

“I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.” Pocahontas

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes

the small and kindles the great.” Roger de Rabutin

“Here in my heart, that’s where you’ll be; you’ll be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you’re here in my heart.” Diane Warren

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” Janus Arony

“If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love.” Bernard Byer

“Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.” Albert Einstein

“The return makes one love the farewell.” Alfred De Musset

“Over the distance that parts us I love you every day.” Unknown

“Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.” Boy George

No matter how many miles separate us physically, our hearts are always side-by-side. – Unknown

“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” Tennessee Williams

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” Tim McGraw

“The further apart we are the closer our love feels to my heart.” Unknown

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.” Francois de la Rouchefoucauld

“Our hearts know no distance too far to love each other.” Unknown

” Ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough, ain’t no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you baby!” Temptations

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