Even if you’re not in a long distance relationship, the relationship that you and your significant other have with the phone is very important.  With text messaging and cell phones making it easy to be in contact every second of the day, oftentimes couples find themselves frequently fighting about issues surrounding phonecalls and messages.
If you are in a trusting relationship, then there is no need for excessive use of the phone to keep in contact.  Unanswered phonecalls and delayed responses to text messages can cause unnecessary stress, doubt, and worry.  It’s possible that your significant other actually loves talking to …read more

In a long distance relationship there are two separate relationships:  the one when you are apart and the one when you are together.  The interactions between you and your long distance partner are entirely different from when you are communicating by phone to when you are communicating face to face.
I want to address the issue of the transition between being apart and being together.  When you are in a long distance relationship you look oh-so-forward to those wonderful weekends that you get to spend in the same place.  For one weekend you think that you will be like normal couples …read more

Here is a list of all the possible scenarios that you might run into and I agree with all but the “Night Own”. I have experience with this on… big time. Britt from about eight years on, needed a lot less sleep than her friends and it was pointless sending her to bed at eight o’clock. My solution was to say that she had to be in her room by nine o’clock and then she could quietly play until she was sleepy. It worked for us. And yes, she had her own TV in her room.
Now, if I had …read more