Contact between you and your SO

[sabby64]

We talk all day, every day XD Webcam, email, texts, phone calls... Nothing gets in the way.

[BoogleBee]

We type a bit every day before I go to uni and then in the evenings a bit. Sometimes we send a few texts but not often as it is way to expensive.
And then we skype about once a week in the weekends, sometimes twice for a good few hours.
Our contact is limited due to 10 hour time differences and both of us having to be at our places of study in the early mornings.

[Tabitha]

We have contact with each other all day, every day. We IM or text during the day, and never go more than 20 - 30 minutes without contact. We Skype each night for a couple of hours before we get ready for bed. We're lucky to live in the same time zone, so it doesn't cut into our sleep, or daily lives as I'm a student, and he's taking in the last part of taking a year off before law school.

[mllebamako]

I agree with LMH that you should try and set up some sort of schedule. When me and my SO were first LD, we kind of just called each other at random points in the day and that was fine because my job hadn't started yet. But once I started work, we found a time that works for both of us. You've gotta be flexible and willing to talk less than you'd like. I would love to talk to my SO more, but all we can do is 30 minutes a day and I appreciate even that.

[Niecey]

We used to talk day in and day out online through email and YIM. I loved those times! At the time he worked a very flexible schedule and we both had free time during the day and at night. We would talk chat and email throughout the day and night until 3/4am. Then we started talking on the phone, but still communicated online as well. I sure miss those times and my heart aches for them.

Anyway, that's all changed due to conflicting schedules and work. And soon both of us will be in school. So, there will be less time for us to talk.

Now we talk everyday or just about everyday on the phone. We text quite a bit too. We don't really talk online anymore, but I miss that. Time just doesn't permit.

Last week was tough we only spoke once. I have not talked to him since Thursday. And well he's gonna be in trouble as he has not responded to my texts, calls or voicemails.....better be a good damn excuse!

[Joyce:)]

i'm in an international relationship, with me in italy while he's in america, and we have a 9 hour time difference. he's in college, i'm in high school, so we have fixed schedules we have to follow. i call him in the morning for 40 minutes before i rush to school, and he calls me when he wakes up, about 9 hours later. we talk in between his classes and once he's done with class, and then usually he stays on skype until i fall asleep.
so usually we talk like 4 or 5 times a day, for a total of three hours, sometimes waaay more and when he's too busy maybe like an hour

[Joyce:)]

and don't ever feel like you're being needy or pushy. in long distance relationships communicating ofthen is the key to the survival of the relationship

[Jonesonaboat]

My man and I talk every day.
Sometimes we can't skype, like this weekend. We Skyped Friday night until I fell asleep and the next time we'll by skyping is for an hour tonight when I get home at 1AM, then he leaves for work. But then Tuesday once I finish work we'll be able to Skype pretty much non stop for like 4-5 days apart from when I'm in work.

When we can't skype we use pingchat on our phones. I have a blackberry with unlimited data plan and he has an iphone with a certain limit (which he's almost hit!). He can use it all the time in work (apart from when he's on a call, he's a paramedic) but a lot of his shift is spent just sitting around doing nothing (alright for some, eyh?). If I'm asleep he'll write me loads of messages to wake up to, and visa versa like now I am going to work this evening when he'll be waking up so I'll leave him lots of messages, then we'll pingchat the whole time I'm in work.

I guess we're pretty lucky, we don't go a day without speaking.
At the end of this month we wont really be able to skype at all, but, it will only be for about a week before he moves into our new apartment, then a week or two later I'll be flying to close the distance =)

[AllieBaba]

We usually text each other throughout the day (from the moment we wake up) and then at night we talk on the phone for about an hour or two... we Skype occasionally, but that's it.

[13000km]

I just responded about communication on another thread.
There's a 15 hour time difference between us, but we skype for 1-5 hours at the end of my day, depending on what time I get home, and a little bit in the mornings before I leave. He sends texts through twitter during his day at either work or school (when I'm asleep) and I do it when I get a spare moment at work and he's either at work or out somewhere. We IM for about an hour during my lunch break, that's at the end of his day. On Saturdays, we get to spend most of the day on skype actually talking talking. We're very fortunate to get to spend so much time with each other despite the huge time difference.

We work while we're on skype, so we can see/hear each other while we're doing our own things. We're not actually talking, but it's kind of like if we were in the same room but still doing something productive instead of spending all that time sitting in front of the computer. It can be hard at first, trying to find a balance between work, school, life and a relationship, but you eventually get into a rhythm that works for both of you. Coming across as needy/pushy only happens when partners cannot agree on how much time they want to spend with each other.

I wish you guys the best! (:

[13000km]

we are on the same time zone.. so we skype the whole day while we can be remotely close to our computers. like.. he just had to hung up on me to restart his PC and our skype call said it lasted 8hrs.

our longest call was 15hrs... surprisingly tho.. my internet behaved that day.. cuz i generally have to restart my modem 500 times.. which means calling him back 500 times.

I just checked our longest call was 16:38! Maybe one day one of us LFAD-ers can break some longest skype call world record. (:

[Natyliz]

Hi! I communicate with my partner everyday. I will send a couple of text messages throughout the day and we always end the day with a Skype call which will last anywhere between 5 minutes to 5 hours. Although occassionly, as my partner is a salesman and can be on the road for a couple of days at a time, we will share a brief mobile phone call. Every relationship is different, there are so many factors to consider. My partner and I live in the same time zone and we both have our nights free.

[8000miles]

I just checked our longest call was 16:38! Maybe one day one of us LFAD-ers can break some longest skype call world record. (:

No love, it's 19:44

[Kyla]

My SO and I usually text throughout the afternoon and then talk on the phone for an hour to two each night.

[YaraG]

We text 30, 40, 50 times a day. Call in the morning to say Good morning, call when he isn't swamped at work and a good night call or video call.