How to maintain a long distance relationship?

- Keep busy to stop you guys from obsessing. Jobs, friends, sports, etc. all stop you staring at the phone all day. My bf works full time and it also stops me obsessing over when the phone will ring cause I know he's busy, at the same time I've got uni work and friends to see.

- BUT still have time to speak to eachother. We almost have a routine - usually a couple texts in the morning, some more texts or a fb convo in the evening and then he'll call me before he goes to sleep. We'll also ring/text eachother if something important or exciting happens to one of us. This was just something that kinda became established as we started going out, but you can also arrange it.

Whatever you do though don't go overkill on the communication...communication is essential for any relationship but calling/texting eachother constantly will get annoying as the relationship goes on, no one has that much to talk about! So you'll end up with silences and awkwardly trying to keep the convo going which will ruin the communication.

- Have an idea of when you'll be seeing eachother. I can bear it when I don't know when I'll be seeing my bf again. But when I know I can focus on that date and remember what I'm working for.

The absolute most important thing in a long distance relationship is to know when you'll be seeing each other again. Talk to each other and figure out an exact date that one of you would be able to make a trip (can be very tricky depending on what kind of distance you're dealing with), then count down the days. When my relationship was much longer-distance, I found a free program that would stay on my desktop and count down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until our next visit (usually about 2-4 months apart). Catching a glimpse of it and seeing the time get smaller and smaller really amps up the anticipation.

Make time. I myself had an LDR for almost 4 years. I's hard and it takes a lot of energy, but if you do that, it should work out. Make time for each other, text, call, skype, write, but stay in daily contact. Make evening's free to have 'dates'. My and my girl used to watch movies together, half of the computer screen would play the movie, the other hand would be on skypecall.

1.Freqent calls for each other. Enough conversation will help you to overcome distance.

2. Phone call and text are not sufficient to keep relation.

Visit each other by week end or holidays. One time meeting per month seems reuired.