7 tips for keeping your long-distance relationship alive during the pandemic

I found it frustrating — but really, I was feeling frustration on HER behalf. I think your advice is contradictory. Like your relationship.

Whether you’ve been dating for 4 months or 4 years, it’s essential to know what to the individuals are willing to make a long term commitment with one another.

Subscriber Account active since. In early March, I said goodbye to my boyfriend outside Orlando International Airport after one of our usual visits back and forth. If I had known then what I know now, I would have kissed him longer or hugged him harder. I landed back in Massachusetts — where I’ve been living and working as a writer for most of our relationship — in a sea of uncertainty. COVID has just taken took hold of my state, as well as my home state of New York, in what seemed like the blink of an eye.

Businesses closed, work moved to the home, and states issued stay-at-home orders and restricted travel. I could have stayed in Florida longer, but work was calling, and my boyfriend also had finals to focus on. Before COVID, my boyfriend and I had been traveling more than 1, miles back and forth to see each other pretty frequently. About a year ago, we had reconnected after a year absence from each other’s lives. It started with a DM, as all great love stories do.

Although we’re both from different parts of Long Island, New York, and went to undergrad together in upstate New York from to , we had gone our separate ways for several years. When we reconnected, I’d been living in Brooklyn for five years and was preparing to head to New England.