Get the Fire Back In Your Relationship You are in love? Congratulations! If you are in a serious relationship with someone you’ve met online, or if you are engaged or married and you spend a lot of time apart, you probably feel disconnected sometimes.

It isn’t always easy to keep the romance in a long-distance relationship, and the less frequently you see each other, the harder it is to keep the romance alive!

If you aren’t a ‘plan ahead’ kind of person, it is even harder to ensure that your lover or spouse knows you are thinking about them.

Not to worry.

With a little creativity and the resources provided by the information highway, you can keep in touch and remind your partner that you are a ‘couple’, even if you don’t get to spend a lot of time together.

Use your phone and your computer to keep in touch!

By Phone

Call the house or your partner’s cell phone and leave a message.

Tell them to pick up an item you ordered for them before you left. Give them the name of the store and the person to see and tell them when the store closes. They will be thrilled to pick up the item, even if it isn’t expensive. It is a great way to surprise your partner!

Send them on a scavenger hunt, calling every day to give them things to look for in the house.

Tell them you want them to find all the items before you return and if they do, be sure to plan a great surprise for them when you get back.

When you get home plan a nice dinner, or a romantic evening in front of the fire, or just share a glass of wine and have him tell you the story of how he looked for and found the items you hid.

Leave your partner a message with the name of a book of poems to get at the library.

Give your partner the name of the poem or the page number and let them go get the book and read the poem you are ‘sending them’ long distance.

Leave your partner a message with the name of a movie that will be on TV or one you want them to rent at the video store and watch.

Tell them what you love about the movie that reminds you of your partner, or the part of the movie that you watched together and loved.

Just pick up the phone and call your partner when you know they will be home or at their desk at work. Just say ‘hello’ and ‘I love you’. It means EVERYTHING.

By Computer

Agree on a time you will both be online and IM or open a chat with your partner, sending romantic pictures or notes.

Have a friend take pictures of you, or take a ‘timed’ picture of yourself. An inexpensive digital camera is a great tool for exchanging photos online.

You can take a picture of yourself at work, at play or in locations you both love and write silly or romantic captions. Send the pictures by email or during an IM session.

Or post them on a free online photo gallery and send your partner the link.

Send ‘free’ online email cards with romantic messages.

Send a sound file with a copy of a song you both love or a romantic song you want your partner to hear.

Send an email ‘diary’ every day with your thoughts from the day and the places or times you thought about your spouse or partner.

Send links to websites with beautiful pictures or love poems or quotes about love.

Tina Mayo - I am owner of http://www.freedatingstuff.com, the site where you can find the ebook to accompany this article.