How to Balance Traveling for a Long-Distance Relationship

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🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, as we kick off February, we're chatting about a major reason why *Traveler* editors have zipped back and forth across the globe: long-distance relationships. Joined by community editor Megan Spurrell and journalist Sarah Walton, we're diving into the ins and outs of making a cross-continent, let alone transnational, relationship work—all backed by some 10-plus years of first person, long-distance relationship experiences between us. Some key takeaways? Always have a plan for when you're going to see each other next. Don't worry too much if your friends and family don't understand. And since you're traveling already, planning a trip to a new destination may be better than visiting each other at home.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler.
0:08.1	I'm Meredith Carey, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Lalearararicoglou.
0:11.8	Hello.
0:12.5	This week, we are doing something a little different and speaking from the heart on a women who travel love hotline of sorts.
0:19.6	With Valentine's Day coming up, we decided it was time
0:22.3	to chat about the ins and outs of long distance relationships. Joining us this week are community
0:27.7	editor Megan Sparell. Hello. And journalist Sarah Walton. Hello. Who have both lived the LDR life.
0:34.4	Sure have. So I would love to start, maybe with Lale, and ask how the long
0:40.3	distance stretch or stretches of your relationship started and whether or not you had a plan
0:46.1	on how you were going to tackle surviving that time apart. Oh, we had absolutely no plan.
0:52.0	It was no plan at all. I was in my early 20s. You don't have plans then. I barely have plans now. But I think we knew pretty quickly that we were onto something pretty good. And it definitely wasn't like any relationship that I'd had before. Obviously it's slim pickings when you're 23. But, you know, we were excited.
1:12.7	And I think, you know, just before we started recording, we were talking about this, which
1:15.3	is that you kind of have two options at the beginning of a relationship when you're from
1:19.4	different places and different countries in my case, which is that either you can be totally
1:24.4	logical and sensible and just call it quits before you even get emotionally
1:29.9	invested in each other or if you're like me who watched far too many rom-coms growing up
1:36.5	you get swept up in the romance of it all and you kind of let yourself enjoy it and then by the
1:43.6	point where you actually have to start
1:45.5	planning, making those decisions, it's too late and you're totally invested. You're like past the
1:49.4	point of no return. Yeah. And you're like, all right, I guess we're just in this together now.
1:53.4	Megan, how about you? Yeah, I think, so when we were talking about this yesterday, I was remembering
1:58.6	that like the first high school boyfriend I ever had was also started as a long-distance relationship because I was going
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