Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. We got a great show plan for you. This one's

born out of my own experience. We're talking about something that's applicable to every single

human being in any kind of relationship, but we're going to be talking about it from the entry

point of long distance relationships. We've done shows on this before. I think we did one a couple

years ago. Circling back, talking about it, adding some new stuff. And this helps all of us

because it's really a discussion of connection and intimacy, which are probably two of the more

important pieces outside of maybe trust and communication. And thank God for technology.

I say that all the time. I marvel still at how we got anything done how we maintained any kind of

relationships how did we ever do long distance ah landlines remember those yeah but we couldn't do the

things we can do now right technology it helps us really court romance have still have sexuality

phone sex wow on a landline that game is upped with face time and video sharing and um pictures and even long distance remote controlled toys oh

game on y'all how did we do this before we lower levels of stimulation, and that was kind of all we had. We worked with it. It was good enough. We were happy. Now the bar is higher. Oh, the expectations. Expanding and growing. FaceTime's going to be your first tip, because it's all about the eye contact how do we really build intimacy eye

contact time together and touch touch absent when long distance and again this is for people that

are dating someone long distance maybe someone's away for the weekend on a work retreat

maybe you're not feeling well and you can't be seen there's so many ways that this applies to

our lives so someone's off at school whatever it might be someone's just away on vacation quickly, work trip. It's all in there.

FaceTime, FaceTime, FaceTime, FaceTime. You'll never feel as close and connected. And you'll

never feel as safe as when you can see them. And that's not going to be the same as texting and

emailing. Always sprinkling in tips, tools, tricks, and gems gems we don't have serious conversations

over text I've said that before let's say one more time we don't have serious

and high conflict conversations over text we don't just get it off our chest or

get it out there we cool settle down and wait until we can be at least in Face

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