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I'm just curious. SO and I stay in touch via text throughout the day and text each other when we're going out or what we're doing (not every little event but for the most part) and text each other funny things that happened, etc. we also skype at least once a day. I'm wondering how other LDRs keep in touch.
We text everday, sometimes more than others. He's currently still sleeping because he is doing his preceptorship 6pm to 6am tonight and I have an exam at 9am tomorrow morning, so we're going to be up at opposite hours. Before he started his preceptorhsip and the shift work that comes with it or when he's on days we text a lot more. When our schedules matched up, we tended to Skype once every three or four days; now we only have the opportunity on his days off.
I'm not in a LDR anymore because we live together now. But when we did live apart we texted once or twice throughtout the day and stayed on the phone like all night lol. Unless one was busy, but we always had a lot to talk about. It's about the same now, while were at work, nothing but spend all night together just chatting it up.
FI and I were in a LDR for the first year of our relationship. We would text after he was done work until he would go to bed. We would call each other once in awhile too. Weekends were time that we spent together (we were only an hour or so away, but had busy lives).
I call every morning, and we talk for just 5-10 minutes while I walk my dog. Then we gchat off and on throughout the day. We usually talk for 20-30 minutes after work then an hour or so right before bed. We see each other every weekend because we're only 2 hours apart.
we text throughout the day, occasional emails with pictures or funny things, then sometimes a call when he's driving home from work (about an hour commute). we also get to see each other at least every other week (despite a 5 hour drive) so we make it work.
Wow, all of you talk a lot! You guys are lucky.
DH and I were long distance between Australia and the US for the first two years of our relationship. For the first six months, we spoke on the phone every 2 - 3 days and Skyped on the weekends. He then moved to the States for 6 months and that was great. We then had 6 months apart and could only Skype on weekends with occasional emails during the week - the time difference and our incredibly demanding jobs made talking on the phone during the week impossible. I then went to Australia for 3 months and we then had another 4 month separation with Skype on weekends only.
We're now finally living together and couldn't be happier. LDR are difficult and factor in the international component and the difficulty factor ups by ten!
@Ree723: Only Skyping every weekend sounds rough. For the first two summers when Kyle and I were dating he worked at a provincial park for the summers. He was gone for 5 days a week... no cell service (so no texting), no internet access, no phone calls. We could only contact each other 2 days a week, even being so close, and it was unpleasant. I can only imagine that international would be much worse, because at least I could see him.
When we were LD we would chat when we both got home from school and sometimes email throughout the day depending on what our schedules were like that day. He doesn't have a cell so we never did the texting throughout the day.
Oh wow, you guys are all so lucky! I'm super jealous now.
FI and I can easily go several days without any communication, even texting. We both are in school (I'm taking 18 credits, he's going for Paramedic, so both super intense) and I work almost full time, he works two jobs at well over full time. We almost never are able to talk at the same time, since we almost never have off of work at the same time. We see each other maybe once every 2-3 weeks, and usually only for a couple hours. Maybe a couple times a week we Facebook chat directly, otherwise it's all FB wall postings and texts that we don't get for hours after the other one sent it.I can't remember the last time we Skyped.
I guess I thought this was a typical LDR, lol. We make it work though, and I value getting to see him and talk to him that much more :)
@galloway111: WOW! I'm taking 18 credits too but I can't imagine working full time as well, I only work about 20 hrs a week at most.
I thought your situation would be typical LDR too I actually thought ours was sifferent. Most of my friends here at college don't talk to their bfs nearly as much as I talk to FI
my FI lives in the same city as me, so we're not exactly LDR.. but now that he's been in pharmacy school I feel like sometimes we are since he's so busy with school and so was I last week :( haven't seen him since last saturday & probably won't see him till friday.. we text throughout the day a lot!!
@Mrs.Lonestar: I guess I don't know anyone in person doing the LDR thing so I don't have any way to compare, haha. It's not that I don't want to text him, but I try not to when I know he's at work or in class in case he forgets to turn his phone off :P And and one of his jobs, he's an EMT and works 12 hour shifts, he doesn't get phone reception. I wish I got to talk to him more though.
Yeah, I work 30 hours a week at minumum, so not quite full time but it's close sometimes.
We text throughout the day and talk at night
We're a little extreme... he's not big on texting, but we're on skype or the phone for at least 2-3 hours every night with pretty rare exception.
he works 12 hr days as a mechanic (so having his phoneo n him at all times is impossible) and I work a 9-5 mondy thru friday. We talk on the phone once every evening and exchange a text or two throughout the day if we need the other to know something or just to be sweet. Our real time together is our weekends since we are both off. Granted he's only off sunday and part of sturday and im off both days. We have to cram in as much family time as possible on the weekends. we are not long distance exactly (40 min between us) but it seems that way sometimes.
When I was in an LDR, we stayed connected via MSN Messenger a lottttttttttttt.
We didn't have decent enough cell phones with good texting plans at that time. Texting also wasn't that popular. My bf at that time was able to have MSN open at work all the time (he was his own boss). And I would get on there as soon as I'd get home from work. And stay on through the night.
We'd take 'breaks' if we had other engagements, or were going to have dinner, etc. And come right back on until we wished each other goodnight.
Then we'd call each other and talk a bit longer until we fell asleep.
When we were long distance, we would usually have a call to say "good morning," text every few hours throughout the day, have one afternoon/dinnertime conversation of a few minutes, and then a longer "goodnight" talk. Needless to say, it was nice to be in the same city when we finally were and have those talks in person!
We text a lot. We also like to send each other cell phone videos of all the "events" we wish the other one could be there to see but can't as a way to include them in things we otherwise might miss.
We were in an LDR for four years. Lots of texts and quick phone calls to check in. We tried to let each other know what we were up to/where we'd be in the same way we would if we weren't long-distance, just to feel a little more connected.
@galloway111: I'm in school full time and my boyfriend will graduate as a Primary Care Paramedic in a couple months; he's currently doing his preceptorship. =) Neither of us work at the moment though, so there's that. Even without the job, I can agree with you that having one partner on shiftwork sucks!
We text throughout the day..constantly. We email when FI is in his office. He calls when he leaves the office for anything.. and when he leaves work and goes home we are on facetime until we fall asleep
we leave each other messages, texts sometimes and see each other via msn/skype.long distanceeee suxx
@AnastasiaM: Glad to know someone else can relate :) I'm getting really jealous seeing how much everyone else gets to talk to their SO! But I know that's not possible for us right now... just wish it were!
And I love that we both have panda avatars! Haha.
FI and I are LDR and we can't keep in touch at all thru the week. He is in police academy and he isn't allowed contact with the outside world. Wahhhaaaa! We get 36 hours together on the weekend and that is it.
@galloway111: That's true! I wasn't even thinking about the pandas haha. I have to say, I'm jealous of other people too sometime. When people talk about how they always get to talk before bed it makes me sad, because it's impossible when he's on nights. (I don't think the patients would approve of phone calls lol.)
Usually my boyfriend and I aren't so bad, since we get to text for about half an hour a day and try to Skype twice a week. However, now that I've been in crazy essy/exam mode for the past few weeks, it's not happening so much (yesterday I got four texts). I'm preparing for it to get more difficult, because I might get a job next semester and once he graduates, he's probably moving up north to work for a year or two (very few people want to work in northern Ontario, so they pay for your housing and you get isolation pay). I'll need the job just for plane tickets, because there's no way I'm going to make a 47 (yep, forty-seven) hour bus trip on my own.
We're in LDR for 17 more days (YEAH!!!) we email each other all day at work. We both have jobs that are busy in the mornings and slack off as the day progresses. We also have a much better txting plan and we talk every night for about 3 hours on the computer.
We're not in a LDR any longer, but when we were, we e-mailed every day (sometimes more than once), and called at least 3x a week (I didn't have a cellphone, so we couldn't txt).
Now that we're living together (and, I've joined civilization with a cell), we txt/BBM constantly throughout the day.
Sometimes we e-mail or text through the day, and we video-chat online for a few hours each night. Some of that time is us watching Netflix together. We pick out movies or tv shows we want to watch and then we queue up and watch them while we are video-chatting.
I used to be in a LDR with my (now) DH. He lived three time zones away, so it was kind of rough...but we'd be on the phone every night for at least 2 hours (I didn't get much sleep those days, because my time zone was ahead of his and it meant LATE nights!). We'd Skype maybe once every 2 weeks...didn't really text throughout the day (he works on a military base and they aren't allowed to have cell phones on them due to security). Man...I don't miss those days!!!!
My FI and I text and email throughout the day, call during the day for a chat sometimes, and skype every night before bed. We've been together just over a year and a half and only missed about 5 nights of our skype dates. We also watch movies together on skype, those are the times I feel like we're 'almost' physically together. Once we're married he will move to Canada :) What on earth would we do without skype!?!?!
FI and I IM/email all day during the day while we are at work (I am in California, he's in Virginia). We exchange random pictures of each other or silly things we see during the day as well.
As far as evenings, we talk on the phone for at least 3 hours every night... and we almost always fall asleep on the phone together. We used to Skype every night, but lately we have been slacking a little. I am sure after the holiday craziness, we will get back into that routine.
It seems like we are in constant contact... this morning we were even grocery shopping "together".
FI and I were in an LDR for the first 9 months of our relationship. We had a 10 hour time difference! Ugh, so basically there were two times a day when we could talk on the phone. Almost everyday we had at least one pretty long phone conversation.
We also wrote letters.
We were LDR for the first 2 years but for the last year (prior to me moving the 1300 miles between us) we would not allow a hour to pass that we did not communicate in some way with each other - even if it was just a text saying I love you! Whe we got off work on a night we would stay on the phone all night (it was our way of sleeping with each other!!).
Now we live together (just got engaged on Dec 26) and we still do not let an hour of the day go by that we don't comunicate with each other. Communication if always the key :)
We text/Google Voice during the day. (Google voice has free texting that can be pulled up on both our phones and computers, so it is a text/IM combo). Depending on our schedules, sometimes we only send a couple messages throughout the day or A LOT.
We also talk on the phone a lot. At least once an evening, and depending on our schedules (we both are in grad school and work) we might only be able to get in a "Hey, I love you, but I need to get back to studying, have a good night" or we might get a nice long 2 hour convo in.
Sometimes we will even Google Voice while talking on the phone! That is more or less to send funny links we find on the internet to the other person so we can laugh at it together, but we are weird like that!
We are semi-long distance, but we try to call each other everyday, just to hear eachother's voice. It might be just a "hi, how are you?" call or a 5 hour conversation.
When our relationship was LDR, there would be lots of emails during the day and skyping when we got home.
we were long distance for two years, saw each other usually every six weeks or so, and would call/text through out the day and usually Skype once a day too
FI and I text throughout the day little funny things stuff like that. We talk on the phone for about an hour per night and we skype about once a week. We only see eachother once a month
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