Making long distance marriage work

This is in response to a request by a member of this family. We appreciate you trusting us to offer some insight on this. We hope we are able to give you some useful tips. So, here we go…

Marriage is work. I have always heard that. And even though I have only spent a few years being a wife to my lovely husband, I do attest to that. 

Marriage is work. Staying together, being happy together, keeping the fire alive and actually making it work. It is a lot. When you both are in the same place breathing the same air, it takes all of you to ensure that you continue to be on solid ground. To stay attracted to one another. To continue to hold on to those vows that you took.

Now, imagine if you were not living together. I imagine that would take even more work.

I imagine that there would be so much to fill in, so much build up of emotion, of physical touch - or lack of it, and just having someone to come home to. Regardless of how ‘annoying’ they might sometimes be. 

One of the good things about marriage is having your own person to be by you most times.  While we know that it might not be possible to be physically with that person all the time, that doesn’t make it easier to cope with the idea of being apart, especially for a prolonged period. 

Well, it doesn’t have to be totally hectic. You can leverage technology to your advantage.

I spoke with a few awesome people who are making the long distance marriage work and here are a few tips that they suggested: