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    The Long Distance Romance Guide: Stay Close Whenever Apart
    The Long Distance Romance Guide: Stay Close Whenever Apart
    The Long Distance Romance Guide: Stay Close Whenever Apart
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    The Long Distance Romance Guide: Stay Close Whenever Apart

    By Leslie Waugh Karsner

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    Distance CAN make the heart grow fonder!

    Whether a couple has been together for years or just met, The Long Distance Romance Guide is a love-saver for college students, military spouses, Internet daters and business travelers.

    Romance Coach Leslie Karsner offers proven strategies for keeping your love strong (and making it stronger) in The Long Distance Romance Guide. Learn the secrets for staying connected...

    Care packages Long-distance Lovemaking Inducing dreams together Tips, quotes, songs and...much more!

    "At long last we have a guide on how to nurture relationships with elegance, class, style and savior-faire."-Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul

    "Salves for the lovelorn plenty of cures for heartache "-Associated Press

    "(Karsner's) unique, over-the-phone relationship counseling has helped patch up the problems of hundreds of couples nationwide."-Cosmopolitan

    "(Karsner's) Romance Coaching is not coaching on a love affair. Instead it is about romance with yourself, a passion for life and getting the flame burning again."-The Washington Post

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 23, 2000
    ISBN9781462040353
    The Long Distance Romance Guide: Stay Close Whenever Apart
    Author

    Leslie Waugh Karsner

    Leslie Karsner is a columnist, speaker and Certified Hypnotherapist in private practice as a Romance Coach since 1997. She is the founder of RomanceInstitute.com.

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      Book preview

      The Long Distance Romance Guide - Leslie Waugh Karsner

      Contents

      Appreciation

      Introduction

      CHAPTER 1

      You are Not Alone

      CHAPTER 2

      Benefits of an LDR

      CHAPTER 3

      Keys to a Successful LDR

      CHAPTER 4

      Rituals

      CHAPTER 5

      Dream about Your Lover

      CHAPTER 6

      Support System

      CHAPTER 7

      Journals

      CHAPTER 8

      Love Letters

      CHAPTER 9

      Telephone

      CHAPTER 10

      Internet

      CHAPTER 11

      Care Packages

      CHAPTER 12

      Musical Reminders

      CHAPTER 13

      Social Diversions

      CHAPTER 14

      Physical Diversions

      CHAPTER 15

      Getting Acquainted From Afar

      CHAPTER 16

      Arrivals

      CHAPTER 17

      Short Visits

      CHAPTER 18

      Departures

      CHAPTER 19

      Handling Disputes

      CHAPTER 20

      The Monogamy Issue

      CHAPTER 21

      Romanspirations

      Your Lover’s Profile

      About the Author

      Appreciation

      In coaching people to have a romance with life, I often find that those who seem to have it all have a hard time appreciating it. In fact, some of my most successful clients come to me because they can’t remember the last time they reacted to anything (romantic or otherwise) by tingling, glowing, blushing, swooning, getting goose bumps or feeling even a single butterfly in their stomach.

      Me, I’m simply reeling with appreciation from all the help I received!

      My brother collaborated with me on this book. His own experience in LDR’s, along with a Master’s Degree from NYU in Interactive Telecommunications, proved invaluable. Together we co-founded RomanceInstitute.com. Thank you, Jeff!

      My romance coaching clients and friends generously lent some of their best tips and secrets for the benefit of others here, so I dedicate this book in gratitude to them.

      Finally, I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge my own LDR’s for what I learned from them. So a few longdistance air kisses go out to past boyfriends who managed the distance with me. My last LDR turned into a same-city marriage, so he gets additional appreciations.

      If you have any ideas that might help others in LDR’s, or if you have an extraordinary tale of how this guide re-connected you with your far-off lover, please send your comments via e-mail to comments@LongDistanceLovers.com. Thanks in advance for sharing.

      May you and your lover appreciate the delights to follow more with each time you experience them, and may you grow closer with each new day you spend apart.

      Introduction

      How wonderful that you’re in love!

      But, your lover’s away so you sit around pining. Then you call each other to whine about the pining. She misses him more.no, he misses her more, miss schmiss!

      After going through a few long-term LDR’s myself, I’d like to share one observation with you right from the start: missing your lover is zero-benefit torment! It’s fruitless frustration. After all, missing someone involves idealizing the past and future.but what about the present? This Guide is your present! It’s your resource for distance management.

      Living your lives apart doesn’t mean your life is missing anything. And it doesn’t mean that you live your relationship in stops (time apart) and starts (time together.) Just as lovers who are present can seem absent, those who are absent can be made to seem present.

      You’ll learn how to approach the time apart as extended foreplay. Even though your lover happens to live far away or travel a lot, by utilizing this Guide you can enjoy and celebrate your relationship every day.

      Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.

      —Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

      As a Romance Coach I’ve coached and interviewed hundreds of people in LDR’s. I’ve witnessed my own friends and clients spend too many days, weeks and months missing absent lovers—and not do anything about it.

      True love is the only reason to go through an LDR. If the love is true, the distance can be managed. And you’ve already got basically everything you need.

      You’ll note throughout the book that I often say romance instead of relationship. That’s because I’m writing this for everyone from those who’ve just met (who might not yet call their romance a relationship) to those who’ve been married for years (who might need reminding that their relationship should be a romance!) And I refer to those involved as lovers—even though they might not yet be in love or have proclaimed it.

      I write about romance, not relationship counseling. If you’re having issues with your relationship, I’d suggest you see a counselor. As I tell my clients, I can’t fan the fires if the wood is green! This book is written for those who are off and running in a romance that is healthy enough to flourish locally…but you simply find yourself, for the time being, geographically challenged.

      Some people believe that keeping up a long-distance romance is like trying to ride a bicycle through the snow: a doomed, wobbily enterprise.

      —Wedding Section, New York Times

      I know firsthand what you’re up against in terms of

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