7 communication tips to keep your relationship alive during quarantine, according to a long-distance couple
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They schedules times to video chat — and avoid multitasking during calls so they can give each other their full attention. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesWeeks ago, I said goodbye to my boyfriend outside Orlando International Airport after one of our usual visits back and forth. If I had known then what I know now, I would have kissed him longer or hugged him harder.
When we reconnected, I'd been living in Brooklyn for five years and was preparing to head to New England. He'd moved to Florida after a stint in the Navy in California and was pursuing a business degree after leaving college early the first go-around. Initially, neither of us thought our messages back and forth would lead to much. Just shy of a year later, though, we're together, very much in love, and planning to finally be in the same place in eight months or so.
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