Long distance relationships are always challenging. It needs great understanding, care commitment and effort on both side for a long distance relationship to bud and bloom to its full.

1. Stay in touch and keep communicating almost every day. For any relationship to work, maintaining communication becomes highly essential. Share your little joys and sorrows with each other. Share what is going on in each other’s lives, ask for advice and talk about issues that are troubling you.
2. You both might have certain common interests like watching movies or reading books. Decide on which movie to watch or which book to read so that you can later discuss and scribble your opinions to each other. In this way you would get to know each other well.
3.  Arrange time for meeting up once in a while (it would be better to meet each other as often as possible). This will help you maintain intimacy with each other.
4. Trusting each other is very important. Avoid mistrust by ensuring them that you are committed to them and this relationship; and that you are looking forward to sharing your future with them.
5. Have mutual respect for each other. Try to understand the other person’s emotional needs and give them support. Be a good listener.