The downsides to being a long-distance couple are obvious: lack of physical intimacy, that awkward table for one and missing out on company at the end of the day. But there are some serious sweet side effects to going the distance, too. Whether you’ve met someone online or a job relocates your partner, you can relish those sweet moments only long-distance couples will ever understand and love.
1. Getting a care package for the first time since college
This era of digital saturation makes snail mail all the more special. It’s rare to get anything in the mail these days other than bills and credit card solicitations. The first time you see a stamped envelope from your lover and open it to discover his actual handwriting scrawled across the page, expressing his deepest feelings for you, sends you to the moon. Or how about when your sweetheart express mails you a batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies just because? It takes a little extra effort to head on down to the post office but it sure ups the ante on those lovin’ feelings.
2. Enjoying a virtual date
Hello Hulu. Your Friday night date nights can continue thanks to technology streaming at your fingertips. Don’t have Hulu? How about Netflix or Youtube? You can even arrange to see a movie at an actual theatre “together” by exchanging movie times and calling each other after the fact to swap thoughts on the dialogue that moved you, the scenes you found funny and whether you’d give the film a thumbs up or down. And the best part is: you can eat all the popcorn and junk food you want guilt-free.
3. Opening that sexy snapchat
After a long day at work, you might feel blue coming home to an empty house. But then you see a Snapchat pop up on your iPhone and relish those ten sweet seconds of your lover posing in the nude. Being far apart can inspire your naughty side to surface in ways you’d be too embarrassed to indulge face-to-face. Who says snapchat is for tweens? If you haven’t tried it yet, we challenge you to claim it as your own and use it to spice up your long-distance love life. Record a saucy video and send it in two seconds flat. Strike a hot pose and hit send. Your recipient will thank you.
4. Gazing at the same moon while you chat a thousand miles apart
The stuff you only see in movies is now your reality. Like that night you pine away for your lover and you both step outside to chat and realize you’re looking at the same moon. It makes you feel like the world is smaller and your love is so close, you can feel each other near.
5. Engaging in a book club for two
It’s exclusive. It keeps you connected. And you realize as you read chapter by chapter together that you’re growing at the same pace. Distance doesn’t change the intellectual buzz you share as you pore over material and swap thoughts on engaging your imagination together as you enter into the words on page. It’s an exciting discovery that’s unfolding between the two of you together…even if you’re not in the same room.
6. Realizing your love is the “icing” but you are the “cake”
Sometimes we get so infatuated with our significant other, we forgo our interests, hobbies and friends to widen the room for our partners. Time apart means getting re-acquainted with those things you loved but lost as you nurtured your budding romance.
7. Tearing past the TSA to welcome each other again
You buy that ticket, create a countdown to mark the days and when the day comes, you travel through the clouds in high anticipation of seeing your partner face-to-face. Your heart races on the plane and you rack your brain with all the right things to say but you’re just so damn excited to race from the terminal and welcome your sweetie with open arms. And the moment that happens is perhaps the sweetest moment of all.
Featured photo credit: Online Romance, Don Hankins, Taken May 11, 2010 via flickr.com
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