Get Rich Slowly Guest Post

It occurred to me (only 6 months after the fact!) that I never posted a link here of the article I wrote for Get Rich Slowly. For those of you unfamiliar with GRS, it’s a great personal-finance blog. As a Valentine’s Day guest post, I wrote about the financial implications of long-distance relationships–the effect the [...]

Long-Distance Travel Tips

In a long-distance relationship, you soon learn to become an efficient traveler. You also soon learn that you need ways to pass the time as you travel long hours on the plane, train, or bus to reach your sweetheart. Here are a few travel tips from Long-Distance Life:

Make It Efficient

If your long-distance relationship [...]

Meeting in the Middle

Although people in long-distance relationships have to do a lot of metaphorical “meeting in the middle,” this time I mean it literally. Have you and your long-distance partner ever considered taking a vacation together?
In the two years my partner and I were long-distance, we never took a trip together, choosing instead to put our vacation [...]

Long-Distance Holiday Travel

Deciding whether—and when—to visit your long-distance partner over the holidays can be tough. It often means a choice between spending Christmas with your significant other, or with your family.
Flexibility is key in a long-distance relationship, and that’s something you can apply to your holiday plans. If you visit your sweetie in mid-December, for example, you [...]

How Will You Know if You’re Right for Each Other?

When you’re in a long-distance relationship, the amount of time you’ve “been together” can be vastly different from the amount of time you’ve actually, physically been together. The two of you might have considered yourselves as being in a relationship for a year, for example, but in that time, only been in the same city [...]