Simple Ways to Make a Long Distance Relationship Work ...

Distance can work if you want it to.

No matter what anybody tells you, long distance relationships can work. Yes, it sucks to only be able to see someone once a month or once every few. But if you?re committed to going the long haul and know that you have something worth fighting for, you have the power to increase the odds of a happy ending ? though I?d suggest fellas not get the ?Chinatown massages special? without expressed written consent from their out of town boo.

If you?re in a long distance relationship or considering one in the future, keep these three reminders at the forefront and you?ll be able to build a relationship based on miles of love.

Fulfill the Physical Needs Regardless

Great sex corrupts absolutely if you?re having it. But if you?re not, this isn?t as big a deal. We all have needs. And of course when people don?t get their physical needs met, they get a little cranky (i.e. Mandingo Syndrome or Testosterone Tantrum Effect). Cop a Bluetooth headset so you can have both hands free when you make that late night call to your boo. It?s wack to be laying there with the phone sliding off your face every time you look at the clock to see how little sleep you?re gonna get before work.

You can also set up that web cam and get your e-pizzle on. There?s no excuse in 2012 not to have a web cam unless you?re the type that still runs a 1997 Compaq Presario or Gateway. In which case, I have nothing to say to you.

If you?re a dude, send shorty a little toy?even though she probably has one already. It doesn?t hurt for her to have two. Variety keeps things spicy. By the way, did you know there are some sex toys out there that can be controlled from the other person?s keyboard? Like a man can remotely USBuss it down from afar with a few clicks and scrolls? I mean nothing beats the real thing, but there are ways to get off and get through until y?all have a chance to be in the same place, in the same space, face to face.

Over-communicate

It?s hard enough for some of us to openly communicate when we?re together, so you can imagine the strain that long distance puts on a relationship. Anyone who has done distance has had fights with their significant purely based on the fact they?re frustrated with not being able to hold, taste, touch or smell each other. When this frustration builds up, the simplest lapse in communication can turn into an explosive fight.

For example, if your significant other has ever went off the grid for 24 hours and you had no idea where he or she was, then you know what I?m talking about (Be optimistic that they aren?t sliding off). Make use of all the technology available to you to express you?re thinking about them and what you?re up to?within reason. Men don?t need to know when women are in the bathroom. We?ve spent years convincing ourselves you can only do one number.
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Drop Off the Map When You?re Together.

When it?s cuff time with the LD boo, you need to disconnect from technology all together?unless you?re an on-call heart surgeon or fireman. Nobody should be allowed to die nor should any kitten freeze in a tree because you?re spooning.

Otherwise, get off Twitter and Facebook, close down that Gchat, shut down that overworked laptop that you never power off, and stop swyping messages on your Droid or having side conversations with Siri. Be in the moment with the person who?s normally hours away. There?s nothing like the time spent together when you haven?t been together. Enjoy it sans technology unless you?re eating Doritos and watching Netflix.

These are just three things to keep in mind as you go about a long distance relationship. There are plenty of others, but I?ll leave those up to you to decide. In the mean time, happy clickings.

Even When She Outta State, She Never Outta Mind,

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