Some Song Suggestions for Long Distance Couples

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this post should take three minutes to read from start to finish.

This post is aimed for current long distance couples to read. If you aren't currently in a long distance relationship or long distance engagement, that's fine. You can continue reading.

Have you and your partner ever thought about sending song suggestions to each other to listen to?

I am not too sure about how many long distance couples send each other song suggestions to listen to. While my husband and I was in our long distance relationship, we suggested songs to each other for us to listen to in our own time. I must admit it was mostly fun sending each other song suggestions.

There was some songs that we really loved a lot, there was some songs that we really wanted to add to the playlist to play throughout our wedding reception - sadly we ended up playing no songs throughout our wedding reception, there was songs that made us happy, and so forth.

Feel free to listen to any of the songs from the following at any time. The following songs that are highlighted was the some of the songs that I have suggested for my husband to listen to and the non-highlighted songs was some of the songs that my husband suggested for me to listen to.

16 Tons - Tennessee Ford
500 Miles - The Proclaimers
Amazed - Lonestar
Beautiful in White - Shane Filan
Before I Fall in Love - Coco Lee
Crazier - Taylor Swift
Did I Tell You - Rebecca Lavelle
Don't Give Up - Shannon Noll and Natalie Bassingthwaighte 
Every Heartbeat - Amy Grant
Fallin' For You - Colbie Caillat
Home is Where The Heart is - Lady Antebellum
How Forever Feels - Kenny Chesney
In Case You Didn't Know - Brett Young
I See The Light - Mandy Moore
I Want Crazy - Hunter Hayes
I Won't Give Up - Jason Mraz

Jet Lag - Simple Plan ft Natasha Bedingfield

"Distance is temporary but our love is permanent." 

Long Distance - Bruno Mars 

Life is Like a Highway - Rascal Flatts

Like There's no Yesterday - Mark Wills

My Sweet Lady - John Denver

Next to You - Jordin Sparks

Near or Far - Carissa Rae Alvarado

Open Arms - Mariah Carey

Put You in a Song - Keith Urban

Sold - John Michael Montgomery

Tenerife Sea - Ed Sheeran

The World - Brad Paisley

When God Made You - Newsong

When You Say Nothing At All - Notting Hill

Would You Go With Me - Josh Turner

You and Me - Lifehouse

You (Wedding Song) - Jason Cassidy

You Got Me - Colbie Caillat

Stay Tuned until next time.

Some Hopes and Commitments in Long Distance Relationships and Engagements

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening,

this post should take three to five minutes to read from start to finish.

This post is aimed for current long distance couples to read. If you aren't currently in a long distance relationship or long distance engagement, that's fine. You can continue reading and find something new while you read throughout this post.

I am certain that every long distance couples would have made some hopes and commitments to each other throughout their long distance relationship and long distance engagement.

Hopes

I know when long distance couples doesn't work out the way that they wanted, they would express their hopes for the best to each other, with their near future and future endeavours. Long distance couples can always hope that they would be able to see each other and be reunited to be together in person again after certain amount of time from being long distance. Long distance couples can hope that they can get through their relationship and engagement. 

I know that my husband and I always hoped that we would be able to see each other again after period of time from long distance, and we always had hope that we would be able to remain strong throughout our long distance relationship and our long distance engagement.

"Every morning I tell myself that we
are one day closer to seeing each other
again. And it gives me the power to live
for one more day without you."

                                                    Commitments

What is your definition and understanding of "Commitments"? What would be some commitments in a long distance couple would face during their long distance relationship and long distance engagement?

Some long distance couples may commit to each other of flying to each other every three to six months - taking in turns who gets to fly and see their partner, may commit having conversations with one another so often, may commit sending each other letters and care packages via mail, etc.

While my husband and I was in our long distance relationship and our long distance engagement, we had several successful commitments. You may ask what was some of the several successful commitments did you and your husband was able to achieve.

Well, my husband and I found success in being committed to each other with being honest to one another, being committed to no dating with no one else -  even at times when other people may look at us as "single" individuals during our long distance relationship, being committed with making some spare time to be able to talk to each other often which ended up being every morning and every night, being committed to saving as much as we can, and so forth.

My husband would refuse to talk to any single female YSAs while him and I was dating long distance. He was more focused on dating with me and prior to us getting married. That's a true strong commitment that he had. My husband trusted and knew that I was talking to a few guy friends, and he was okay with it as long as I didn't ended our long distance relationship and our long distance engagement and also it doesn't interfere our long distance relationship and our long distance engagement. 

Stay Tuned until next time.

Limit Expectations, Be More Understanding in Long Distance Relationships and Engagements

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this post should take four to seven minutes to read from start to finish.

This post is aimed for current long distance couples to read. If you aren't currently in a long distance relationship or long distance engagement, that's fine. You can continue reading and find something new while you read throughout this post.

Limit Expectations

What is your definition and understanding of "limit expectations"?

I am sure that each long distance couple have spoken about some expectations for what they would have for each other to meet. During the earliest stages of dating with my husband while we were in long distance relationship, we had a conversation about what some expectations that we had for each other to meet.

What are some expectations that long distance couples can have and why do they have them?

~ Having conversations often, even if it's two to four days a week - it helps with bonding each other.
~ Celebrating each other's achievements, it helps with being proud of what have been accomplished.
~ Supporting each other's decisions, some decisions can be tough and need to be able support them.
~ Trusting one another, it helps build a stronger foundation when trust falls into place.

~ Constantly missing each other, it often helps understanding for each other that they are being missed. ~ Constantly loving each other, it often helps understanding for each other that they are being loved. ~ Remaining strong for each other, there are moments when long distance becomes difficult.

Before my husband and I met each other in person and during the earliest stage of boyfriend and girlfriend phrase; we were concerned if we flew to each other and finding out that we didn't like each other in person, we didn't know what we would do. If our relationship didn't last long, we would feel very upset. We knew that the cost of plane tickets, and other expenses that was involved has been wasted. The effort and time that we had for organizing plans would have been wasted. We were afraid that we might get emotionally hurt.

My husband and I were able to fast and pray at separate times within a week ish to make sure that we were making the right decision for dating each other. When we got the same impression with the answer that we received, we were feeling so happy because our mutual concerns went away and we were looking forward to meeting each other in person. It certainly took over a week after we started dating for my husband to tell me that he loved me for the first time.

I remembered about two years ago and about a few weeks prior to my fifth month into the long distance relationship with my husband, I shared a photo of me and my husband together on Facebook. The caption stated,

"In long distance relationship; you will learn to communicate with your partner often, you will learn how to build trust with your partner, you will learn how to build courage to stay strong while your partner is far away from you, you will learn how to be supportive for your partner's decisions, you will learn how committed you are towards your partner, you will learn how to not fully rely your happiness from your partner, and so much more."

"Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no
limits." - Dee King.

Be More Understanding

How can you "be more understanding" towards your loved one during long distance?

How can you "be more understanding" towards your relatives and extended relatives?

How can you "be more understanding" towards your friends?

I understood now of the some ways that can be misunderstood during long distance relationship and long distance engagement. Some long distance couples may find it difficult of ways to be more understanding to each other. 

What are some ways that long distance couples may experience to be more understanding and why?

~ Being a great listener to each other - it's often a great idea to engage conversations with some questions and answers, also sharing related experiences to each other is also a great idea. 

~ Have some understanding of culture backgrounds and transitions, most common long distance couples would find themselves dating someone either out of their state in their same country or out of their country, - it's often fun way of getting to know someone else's culture background and learning about the transitions that they do.

~ Each individual may experience different routines/schedules that changes day to day bases, - with depending on employment has different rosters for starting and ending shifts during the payment period. 

~ Have the understanding of the time zone differences - understanding of time zone differences makes it a lot easier with finding the right time for the couple to be able to communicate with each other. 

While my husband and I was in long distance relationship and engagement; we both learned more about each other's culture backgrounds' differences, we shared some words that we said differently for certain items that means the same thing, we were often a great listener to each other - we always asked each other questions and answers, I always admired my husband for sharing his mission experiences that he had and he always admired my experiences that I had while serving in Brisbane Temple, and so forth. 

We both knew that our routines/schedules were constantly filled up quickly. My husband was working from Mondays to Fridays and that took up most of his days with work. Due to the time zone differences, I would be mostly sleeping while he was working. Before he starts work each work day, I would be either be working, or spending some time with my family or doing other things. 

Stay Tuned until next time. 

5 Suggestions of keeping Long Distance Relationship and Engagement last and steady

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening,

this post should take three to five minutes to read from start to finish.

This post marked on 100th post since I started this blog.

Anyway, this aimed for current long distance couples to read. If you aren't currently in a long distance relationship or long distance engagement, that's fine. You can continue reading and find something new while you read throughout this post.

I know past long distance couple has different ways and suggestions to share with their friends and relatives how they were able to get through the long distance. I also know current long distance couple also have different ways and suggestions to share with their friends and relatives how they are able to get this far into their current dating stage.

My husband and I were a past long distance couple. We dated mostly long distance when we were in my boyfriend and his girlfriend stage, and we dated mostly long distance when we were engaged - my fiancè and his fiancèè stage. I have been asked several times of what were some things that we did as a couple to make our long distance relationship and our long distance engagement would last and steady.

I would be gladly to share with you some of the things that my husband and I did to keep our long distance relationship and our long distance engagement last and steady. Those things can be considered as suggestions of what you and your partner can do for your current relationship or engagement. I also would share of how that certain thing has helped me and my husband. I may also share why we did those certain things.

"You're worth every mile between us."

Couple Prayers

Each day and evening, my husband and I always took in turns who gets to say the couple prayer. Having couple prayer has helped us to build into a habit of having couple prayers after we got married. My husband and I still take in turns of who gets to say the couple prayer each morning and evening.

Couple Scripture Study

My husband and I did couple scripture study. It has helped us to build into a habit of having couple scripture study after we got married. We considered doing couple scripture study has helped our spiritual growth together. We even had couple scripture study for Family Home Evening.

Both of us was employed

My husband and I both were able to worked while we were in long distance. We both enjoyed working and saving as much as we can before I moved to Texas, USA. I'm currently not employed, and I'm still glad that my husband gets to continue working and being employed after I moved to Texas, USA. Who knows when I get to start working and being employed again. I certainly have some days when I missed working and being employed.

Constant Conversations

My husband and I were able to constantly having conversations to each other each day and each night via Facebook Messenger. We know that communicating to each other often has helped us to stay connected while we were long distance. It also has helped us to get through our days and evenings when we weren't together in person. Some of our conversations would be focused on checking up on each other, how our days was, how was work, how was our evenings, checking up on how our families were, and so forth.

Started with one Skype Call, that led into more Skype Calls and mostly Video Chats

My husband and I had skype calls for a several weeks and we also had video chats via Facebook since a week after I landed back to Brisbane, Australia from my vacation in Utah, late February 2018 to the last day I was during my layover in Sydney, Australia - July last year.. We always organized appropriate times for us to have a Skype call or a video chat via Facebook. 

We worked out that we would Skype each other or Video Chat via Facebook during daytime while I was in Australia and when it was either late afternoon or nighttime when my husband is over here - Texas, USA. 

Sometime either on early January, 2018 or on mid January, 2018 - we had our very first Skype call and I still remembered towards the end of that Skype call, my husband has requested for another skype call for the next following day for my daytime.

Guess what? We ended up skyping the next following day for my daytime. Again towards end of the second Skype call, my husband has requested for another skype call for the next following day for my daytime. We always enjoyed having Skype calls and Video chats via Facebook because it has helped us to again to stay connected and we always liked each other's accents. Sometimes there was some things that we would pronounce and sometimes find it funny when we hear it in our accents. Sometimes there would be words that we couldn't understood each other.

Stay Tuned until next time.