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Building trust
Because you're not there to keep an eye on each other, it's also important to build trust. Be extra demonstrative of your feelings. Send cards, flowers, presents. Say 'I love you' often, to make up for the fact that you can't show affection face-to-face.
Make extra efforts to be reliable, to do what you say you are going to do. If you each know that you are trustworthy in little things, you'll be able to trust in big things - like fidelity.
What about sex?
One big issue of living apart is missing out on lovemaking. Try having phone sex together. You can also practise teasing each other through the day with erotic text messages and, that evening, huskily describing what you'd like to do to each other.
Be careful, though. Don't let expectations build too high as sex may fall flat when you see each other. If the face-to-face lovemaking feels second best, put extra effort into meeting each other's lovemaking needs.
Building trust
Because you're not there to keep an eye on each other, it's also important to build trust. Be extra demonstrative of your feelings. Send cards, flowers, presents. Say 'I love you' often, to make up for the fact that you can't show affection face-to-face.
Make extra efforts to be reliable, to do what you say you are going to do. If you each know that you are trustworthy in little things, you'll be able to trust in big things - like fidelity.
What about sex?
One big issue of living apart is missing out on lovemaking. Try having phone sex together. You can also practise teasing each other through the day with erotic text messages and, that evening, huskily describing what you'd like to do to each other.
Be careful, though. Don't let expectations build too high as sex may fall flat when you see each other. If the face-to-face lovemaking feels second best, put extra effort into meeting each other's lovemaking needs.
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