Long Distance Relationships: How Much Is Too Much?

Talk To Me: The Debra Fileta Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality, Default, Talk Radio, Christianity

4.8 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today's caller is asking a question about long distance relationships. She's trying to get to know her boyfriend, who lives across the country, and she's wondering how much is too much when it comes to getting to know one another, specifically - spending time on the phone talking. Her boyfriend's roommates seem to think they talk "too much" - and she's not so sure. So who is right in this situation? And how do you gauge it? Long Distance Relationships Check out today's conversation about long distance relationships and how much is too much when it comes to spending time talking and getting to know one another! Tune in to this episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below, and leave us your rating and review! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PODCASTS - iHEART RADIO Connect with today's sponsor: Start the New Year by getting healthy!!! Get matched with a licensed counselor who is also a believer in 24 hours, and start your online counseling experience today: https://getfaithful.com/debra Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY BOOKS BY DEBRA Debra's New Book COMING MAY 2021!! PRE-ORDER TODAY!! And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season and Are You Really OK?. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, welcome back to the love and relationships podcast. I'm your host, Deborah Felita,
0:23.4	and I'm so glad you're tuning into these candid conversations about love, sex, dating, singleness,
0:29.5	and marriage. For those of you who don't know me or are tuning in for the first time, I'm a licensed
0:34.5	professional counselor and author specializing in relationship issues.
0:39.0	I also run the Relationship Advice blog True Love Dates.com, reaching millions of people with the message
0:44.9	that healthy people make healthy relationships.
0:48.5	If you've tuned into the podcast before, you know it's a hotline style show, meaning people
0:53.5	call in or write in with their
0:55.1	relationship questions, and I answer them on this show in short, practical, bite-sized
1:00.1	answers. If you have a question that you want me to answer on the show, send it via email
1:05.3	or voice memo to Deborah at true lovedates.com or check out my podcast page, true lovedates.com slash love and relationships.
1:13.9	And I'll do my best to get it answered on one of the episodes. So let's get started.
1:21.9	Hi, Deborah. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. Just a little quick back story. I met my
1:31.5	boyfriend online on this Christian dating site and we started talking early September. And then I actually
1:39.1	flew out to meet him in Oregon in October. And we began dating just a couple weeks ago. And so he's on the West
1:47.9	Coast and I'm on the East Coast. So there's about a three hour time difference. He lives with like five
1:52.9	other guys and I live with one other roommate, but we're pretty much to ourselves, keeps to
1:58.5	ourselves. And so my question is, I guess how much talking do we do on a daily
2:05.3	basis because i guess he was getting feedback from his roommates saying that he talks to me too much
2:13.0	but i work monday through friday during the day and so it's just our time to catch up like later in the
2:20.2	evening and so I wasn't sure like if you had any direction as far as bounce or how much is too
2:27.1	much talk. We've talked about idless chatter and having purpose with our conversations instead of just chit-chatting.
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