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Ask Orbit · by Bianca Santos · 2026-10-20

Long distance: what actually helped?

Scheduled calls and visits every six weeks kept us going. Any tips that worked for you?

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Nima Ahmadi · 14 likes

Boundaries are healthy, not selfish

Avery Johnson · 1 likes

Depends but yeah mostly

Finn Brown · 0 likes

True, learned it the hard way

Jan Nowak · 14 likes

Been there, it gets better with time

Mango Fern · 5 likes

Not sure I agree but ok

LazyAstronaut · 0 likes

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Mia Bauer · 10 likes

Date night once a week saved us honestly

Amina Okafor · 7 likes

Well said

Aarav Sharma · 9 likes

My wife would say I'm wrong here and she's probably right

Jack Taylor · 13 likes

Depends but yeah mostly

Amina Okafor · 0 likes

Haha my thoughts exactly

João Pereira · 8 likes

Talk to them directly instead of hinting

Noah Miller · 14 likes

Good take, hadnt considered that

Minh Nguyen · 0 likes

Good take, hadnt considered that

Mia Anderson · 3 likes

Maybe its just a bad week, give it a few days

Camila Rocha · 5 likes

Haha my thoughts exactly

Felix Weber · 4 likes

lol this made me laugh

Silver Comet · 2 likes

Therapy helped us a lot, no shame in it

Sara Al Nuaimi · 3 likes

Ha, my wallet disagrees

Maya Putri · 0 likes

Small gestures matter more than big ones

Brave Runner · 4 likes

I read that twice and still chuckled

Marco Conti · 0 likes

Good take, hadnt considered that

Sophie Gagnon · 0 likes

Texting culture has made this so confusing

Milan Visser · 2 likes

lol this made me laugh