The Long-Distance Relationship Survival Guide


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Skyrocketing phone bills. Layovers and missed flights. Countless hours spent pining, worrying, and wondering, Why do we do this to ourselves? Long-distance love can be one challenge afteranother, but as most committed couples will tell you, the rewards well outweigh the stresses. In this sensitive yet sensible guide, long-distance veterans Chris and Kate provide strategies for making the distance seem shorter and outline eight essential skills for relationship success: Communicating effectively Establishing mutual goals and expectations Dealing with issues of trust, fidelity, and independence Having fun in spite of the distance Managing time, schedules, and stress Keeping the relationship real Balancing sex and emotional intimacy Making the transition to same-city living Based on interviews with more than 100 couples and packed with knowledgeable tips and honest advice, THE LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP SURVIVAL GUIDE proves that, with patience and dedication, a loving relationship can not only survive but also thrive across the miles.




The Faraway Nearby


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A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Long-Distance Relationships


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"Staying together while you?re far apart ?" Maintaining a long-distance relationship is a challenge. In this helpful guide, author Seetha Narayan?herself one-half of such a couple?offers understanding, tips, and real- life suggestions for keeping long-distance love alive. This book helps readers learn how to adjust to a long-distance relationship, use phone and e-mail effectively, raise kids together when they?re apart, deal with issues of fidelity, and more. -This is the first book geared toward couples in committed relationships looking to do the work it takes to make it through the long haul -In the current economic climate, more and more couples are facing the hard choice of embarking on a long-distance marriage -Couples in which one or both spouses is serving in the military are dealing with marriage at a distance?this book speaks to them, too




Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships


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This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance. By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types, such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining, rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties. With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships, Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology, sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and family studies.




The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory


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No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack. This practical guidebook will help women break free of the mold of traditional monogamy, without the constraints of jealousy, possessiveness, insecurity, and competition. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory incorporates interviews and real-world advice from women of all ages in nontraditional relationships, as well as exercises for building self-awareness, confidence in communication, and strategies for managing and eliminating jealousy. If you're curious about exploring group sex, opening up your current monogamous relationship, or ready to “come out” as polyamorous, this book covers it all! Whether you're a seasoned graduate, a timid freshman, or somewhere in between, you'll learn how to discover and craft unique relationships that are healthy, happy, sexy, and tailor-made for you. Because when it comes to your love life, being a know-it-all is actually a great thing to be.




The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck


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#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.




Long Distance Relationships


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If you're in a long distance relationship (LDR) you've probably heard this before. Millions of couples, married or dating, consider themselves long distance, and they struggle with the unique difficulties that come from living apart. Long distance relationships do work. But to be successful you must understand how they differ from other relationships, and you must learn new strategies proven to make a difference. Based on ground-breaking research, Long Distance Relationships will teach you the little-known, but critical secrets to a happy and healthy long-distance relationship. Book jacket.




The Long-Distance Relationship Guide


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Master the challenges of long-distance relationships with this fun and practical survival guide for geographically challenged lovers The phone company might think long distance is the next best thing to being there, but The Long-Distance Relationship Guide knows better: long-distance relationships require hard work, commitment, a sturdy travel bag, a good calling plan, a healthy sense of humor, supportive friends—and lots of ice cream. Here’s everything you need to make sure your relationship can go the distance. Learn how to: • Spot the serial long-distance dater • Prepare for “The Visit” • Discover the joys of phone sex • Write a juicy love letter • Negotiate turn-taking visits Full of helpful quizzes, checklists, and advice from relationship experts and long-distance veterans, The Long-Distance Relationship Guide will help you make the most of your long-distance romance.




Long Distance Love


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If you want to make your long distance relationship work, then get this step by step guide by someone who has that EXACT experience in real life. As with any relationship, a long distance relationship involves more than just the two people trying to make it in a difficult and strenuous relationship. It involves family, friends and all people who care about us. Because long distance relationships can be especially stressful, I offer a step-by-step guide to negotiating different aspects of the relationship. In my book, I discuss tips and guidelines that will help with each phase of the relationship from meeting to courtship. I interject personal stories and asides regarding my UK to US romance in a way that showcases the human side of the advice that is always easier to offer than to truly apply. Advice includes: • What to consider entering a long distance relationship. • How to find love and decide whether or not a connection is worth fighting for as it is maintained through a long distance relationship. • Establishing the objectives and logistics involved in seeing through an online relationship to a successful outcome. • How to trust and rely on a partner you are no with in the flesh. What to consider before committing to an online relationship and how to tackle feelings of mistrust and insecurity. • Modern courtship and how to negotiate meeting the family and courting a long distance partner in an already difficult situation. • Coping with the distance and loneliness involved in a long distance relationship. • Preparing for the big day and changes that lie after working to be together with a long distance partner at last. As a long distance relationship forms and progresses, there are many obstacles, which require being addressed. My guide describes he stages of the relationship and the stages of planning a long distance relationship must undergo in order to succeed. About the Expert Having been in a long distance relationship more than once, I am all too familiar with the obstacles and concerns of everyone involved. Long distance relationships are something my family had to cope with as being part of a wave of the future. The ease of communication in the modern age also makes it easier to develop strong emotional attachment to people you can’t since. My behavior initially made my family confused when I began expressing myself through online communication and relationships. While I did not expect to find love, let alone fight for it as I did, it was worth it in the end to see it succeed. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.




Long Distance Relationships: How to Maintain a Successful Long Distance Relationship (Tips to Keep Things on Track and Long Distance Relationship Messages for Him and Her)


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The parting of the ways is inevitable in life and during the period between teen years and adulthood is even more likely due to the constraints of university choices. Other reasons why there may be long distance relationships is because not every part of the world has the job availability and often people go away from home to work for a while, to gain the extra experience that they need in order to jump up the ladder in their own hometowns. There can be any number of reasons why people find themselves in a long distance relationship, especially since the birth of the internet because romances often bloom online and promises are made that are in fact just as serious as those made face to face. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... • Can you survive a long distance relationship? • Communicating regularly and staying committed • Trust in your long distance relationship • Being creative in your long distance relationship • Making that time together count • Being there for each other • Finally moving to the same place together Living apart might be challenging, but even though you currently live apart, there are plenty of things you can do together and methods to hang out. You can find the answers to your queries and fixes for your issues within the pages of this book. Most importantly, though, you'll learn how to communicate with your partner so that you two may enjoy yourselves more and become closer.