Convince Someone to Try a Long Distance Relationship
Love! Unconditional love! It's terrible how distance can ruin a relationship and it can make people wary of starting a relationship. However, here are some ways of convincing a person to try the relationship.
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Steps
- If you are good friends with the person, assure them that you will try to get your friendship back if things end badly.
- Agree on ways of keeping in touch. A phone call every Thursday, a text every so often, seeing each other at least one weekend every month.
- Make sure the relationship doesn't take over your entire life. Don't spend all your time either seeing your partner or travelling. Keep seeing your friends, working, taking time to be by yourself.
- Be prepared for a little work. Some people say if relationships are hard work, they're not worth it. However, long distance relationships are hard work. Determine whether you and your partner can work on it.
- Know if you can trust her. Trust is a big thing in a long distance relationship. You can cheat on your partner easily without them noticing. You'll have to trust each other to cope.
- Do things together. Travel can be hard but try not to collapse on the couch. Go out to dinner, catch a movie, whatever. This will make the relationship feel a little more.. normal.
- Ask the person if they wanna go on a "trial". You can try the relationship for a certain amount of time (longer than a week) and if it really doesn't work out, you can go back to being friends, no harm done. If it does work, you have yourself a relationship.
Tips
- Being spontaneous can make a long distance relationship feel worth it. If you have a key to your partner's apartment or house, decorate the bedroom with roses. You could even find out if your partner is busy one weekend and if not, book a romantic get away.
- It can be hard when everyone around you has a partner that lives close by and your partner is miles away. So send little things to remind your partner you love them, a card, flowers, a loving text. These small touches can actually go a long way to keeping the relationship going.
- Work at it. You can't just sort of expect this kind of relationship to work out. You've got to make it work out.
Warnings
- The person may not be convinced and you can't make them be in the relationship if they really don't want to be.
- Starting a relationship with a friend can ruin a friendship.
- Like a relationship, things can go badly.
