This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

I wonder why you never gone.

Maybe you're shy, I don't know why.

Just feel the curve that can fly.

I wonder why you never go.

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This is another one from the band, an eagle in your mind, a band that I am slightly obsessed with right now, doing good stuff.

This particular song is called If You Open the

Door and I thought it was a great mood setter for us today. Today we're talking about love at a

distance, long distance relationships and how to make them work. I really wanted to speak about

this topic because we have been getting, I think,

even more couples than usual in long-distance relationships here at our practice at Growing

Self, more questions from long-distance couples coming through on the blog at Growingself.com,

through Facebook, through Instagram, and understandably so because long distance couples really

do have unique challenges and also unique strengths, but really need to approach different

aspects of their relationship differently than in real life couples do. And so we're getting so many requests

for long distance couples. And I have to tell you the funniest thing. Recently we started noticing

long distance couples reaching out and saying, do you guys do couples counseling for long distance

couples through three-way video? And we're like, yes, we see so many long-distance couples through three-way video. And we're like, yes, we see so many

long-distance couples. And we did prior to the whole pandemic situation. I think we're probably

even doing more of that now. But it's like, how else would we do couples counseling for long-distance

couples, if not through three-way video call. So the answer is an

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