Long-distance relationships require a lot of commitment and it is not at all easy to have your partner in your arms and then have to suddenly separate and return each to your own home. How can you avoid suffering when you miss your loved one in a relationship like this?
Steps
Step 1. Communicate
Remember that a relationship is made up of a bond between two people, so your partner feels everything you feel too. He too will be missing you and grieving for you. So learn to communicate in the right way, share your feelings with your partner, because they will understand you better than anyone else. Also talk to your family and friends about it when you are feeling down.
Step 2. Keep in touch with video calls
Using a webcam is simple and not expensive at all, it is the most effective way to feel the presence of the other if you are in a long-distance relationship. Seeing the face of your loved one, their smile, their voice, will make you feel better immediately. Seeing each other frequently via the web will be an antidote to nostalgia and a cure for sadness. Being able to see the smile of your loved one every day is the best way to dispel the anxiety of separation.
Step 3. Making something by hand
Creating something to give to your loved one is a way to unleash your creativity and keep busy. Try something like scrapbooking or collage, create an object that celebrates the good times you spent together. Then give your creation to your partner, it will be an object for him to cherish and look at in the moments when he misses you most.
Step 4. Plan
Determine when and where you will see each other again. Organizing your next meeting will help you think about when you will be together again and will take your mind off your worries. Talk together and plan for the future, it is important to do so to understand that the relationship is evolving and the distance that separates you is only momentary.
Step 5. Talk about things to do together
When you call your partner, talk about when you will see each other and what you will do in the time you have available. Even if you may not be able to realize all the projects you are considering, talking about them will keep your mind busy and will project the relationship into the future.
Step 6. Swap clothes
Swap one of your outfits with your partner, for example a shirt. The object will make you feel that person closest to you, especially if it still smells. Take something of his own and leave one of your garments, so that the other too can console himself by holding something that belongs to you.
Step 7. Distance is not forever
This is one of the things to think about whenever you feel overwhelmed by nostalgia. Sooner or later something will change and both of you will be together, and you can think about your future. This goal to be achieved will keep you united and will give you the right motivation to move forward and carry out projects. Long-distance couples are generally those who manage to communicate in the best way, and also the most determined and in love. Distance is a temporary factor and will not always be a hindrance in your relationship.
Step 8. Support each other
Whenever your partner is feeling down, reassure them and support them! Tell him everything will be okay, remind him that you will not be divided forever and that you will see each other very soon.
Advice
- Nostalgia subsides over time, because every day that passes is one less waiting to see each other again.
- Count down the days that must pass before a new meeting. Don't think about how long you will have to be apart.
