Valentine's Day and Long Distance Relationships?

I'm in a long-distance relationship as well, and it sounds VERY similar to yours in a lot of ways you mentioned above. A very special gift you could get her is a picture frame that you can record a message on. That way, she can see your picture, and hear your voice at the press of a button. I did this for my boyfriend, and he loves it. If she compliments you on your cologne (if you wear any), you could send her a bottle of it, and have it in the arms of a teddy bear. That way she'll always have your scent on anything she wants. My boyfriend has a bottle of my perfume, and sprays his bedroom with it so it'll remind him of me. I'm not sure if this will work since you're both older, but you could get her something to cuddle with at night. Then when you're talking late at night she'll have something to snuggle with and pretend it's you. Girls usually love stuffed animals. You could also get her a rose dipped in gold. Those are very romantic, and last forever. Just like I believe you both will, seeing the circumstances you mentioned, and how you can both make it through the distance. Or you could send her real flowers, whatever her favorite are, by calling a flower shop in her area, and having them sent to her house. Just search online and it'll be easy to find a flower shop near where she lives. I understand promise rings sound corny, but they make really nice presents. Or just get her a casual ring to wear. You can get something special engraved on the inside of the band and it'll remind her of what's in store for the future. Something cute you could do, is make a home-video/DVD for her. Just get someone to film you, and say whatever you want to her on it. That way she can watch it whenever she misses you and smile. Something that I'm doing for my boyfriend this year is doing the 365 reasons why I love you idea. You could do this and she would just love it! You could turn it into a scrapbook and make it even more creative. Most girls love it when their men give them homemade presents, because they come from the heart.

Also, here's a website that has a lot of adorable ideas on it. Browse around and you may find something you like.

http://www.personalizationmall.com/Romantic-Person...

Here are some ways my boyfriend and I keep our long-distance relationship going. (It's been 7 months of distance so far, but we see eachother about as often as you mentioned you see your girl.)

- We call eachother often. That's just a common sense thing to do. Our main rule is that we talk before bed EVERY single night, and we call eachother EVERY single morning. That way we fall alseep and start the day happy.

- If you have cell phones, this can be somewhat helpful. We both dedicated 5PM of every day to ourselves. We set a daily remember in both of our cell phones, and it goes off at 5PM each day. We always do our best to call eachother at that time, and to tell eachother it WILL work out. Because although we know it will, it's still nice to hear.

- If you both don't have them yet, get webcams. They work miracles. We promised eachother to at least get on ours daily, and it really cheers us up. That way we feel like we're together in person, and it overall just makes us a lot happier.

- Write letters. Sure, you talk all the time on the phone, but letters can sometimes be more personal. Also, this gives you both something to read when you're unable to talk to eachother. I suggest you write something encouraging so when she's down, she can read the letter to feel hope and to know that she's loved.

- Text and send pictures to eachother often. That just gives way to more smiles.

- Count down the days until you see eachother. Check off each day that passes on a calendar, and that way each day you can see directly how it's only THIS much longer until you see eachother again.

- Another tip is to be social with your family and friends. You need to be around people in person often, so you aren't isolated and become unhappy. This problem occurs A LOT in long-distance, so try to keep busy at least a few days out of the week. True, you want to talk 24/7 (at least most likely), but make time for yourselves seperately too. In person couples even do this.

Sorry this was long. I hope you find it helpful and I wish you the best of luck in your relationship!

I like the surprise gift thing. You should send flowers and a teddy bear and to make it more personal and sweet send her a video message with it saying happy valentines day and how much you miss her. You could also write a small poem. My boyfriend writes me poems once in a while. He isn't amazing at it but when he tries and reads it to me it means a lot. In the future if you can afford it you should both get an xbox 360 with video cams. If she loves watching movies with you she will love this one. On the 360 you can watch a movie together and see each other on the webcam and talk while watching the movie. It's great! I hope i helped some. Good luck!

I think the movie idea is cute, and she's already said she likes that so that is good. You could also send her a gift with a personalized message from http://cupidsarrows.giftsuperstore.net/

As far as how to keep the relationship going until you are together for good? Talk about your future together. Set goals. Talk about the possibilities of marriage, where you would live, desire for children, etc. That will show that you both are actually taking this somewhere, and its not just a temporary relationship to fulfill your current needs. An engagement ring or promise ring can help to bring that commitment forward but if you ask too early in the relationship it can cause too much pressure (I'm not really sure what stage you all are in). Eventually to make a long distance relationship work, one of you has to move, but I see that it looks like that is already planned. God bless!

I like your outlook on your relationship. :]

Anyway, I think I would surprise her when she comes in March with a big Valentine's dinner! Cook it yourself of course :] It would be a cute way to say 'sorry we weren't together on the actual day, but we're here now' type of thing. Also, try 1800 flowers or a flower deliver company and send her flowers as well as the gift you are sending her. Maybe send them to her work so she is really surprised!

Hope this helped, and good luck with everything!

For a long distance relationship, I would say go buy a card, and write something sweet in the card. Just write how much you like/love her, and what you feel about her. Or just write the basic; "Love you, and miss you." Best of luck man! Hope everything turns out well:)

Download Skype and video-talk on a laptop.