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Remember to Take Care of Yourself!

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When involved in a long distance relationship it is important to maintain good personal health.  Make sure you get enough sleep every night, you eat healthy meals, and you take care of your body and mind.  By taking care of yourself, you also improve your mentality towards your relationship.  If your well-rested and feeling good, your attitude towards your significant other will be more positive! Here at Trinity, its much too easy to get stressed out over schoolwork, overdue projects and reading assignments, and that buildup of stress is unhealthy and will contribute to negativity towards your loved one and others.  Also, taking care of yourself should be foremost, because in order to make anyone around you happy, you must be happy yourself.  Loving yourself is the first step to letting someone else love you.  Also at Trinity, when homework and activities pile up, your loved one should not become a venting outlet, those negative comments dilute relationships. All in all, its vital to the success of long distance relationships to maintain a healthy self image and confidence.

Being communicative and involved!

Have A Long Distance Relationship that Works. 2009. Photograph. Primer Magazine. By Sydney Pendle. Web. 6 Oct. 2009. .

When your in a long distance relationship, its pivotal to the success of the relationship to be communicative. Being communicative and being receptive to your partner's feelings is very important.  The distance eliminates many aspects of communication, therefore vocalizing emotions becomes central to long distance relationships. Also, it is important to try and establish common activities that you and your partner make partake in at your different schools.  Here at Trinity, its easy to get wrapped up in Nacho Hour, the Study Abroad fair and other activities, try and convince your partner to join clubs, teams or groups and his/her school also.  The time you spend doing activities helps take up time you might otherwise be spending moping and pining for your girlfriend or boyfriend.  Also, by joining a club or team, you have creating a conversation topic and established something you can share with your significant other.  There are many activities and clubs here at Trinity that can help alleviate some of the sadness that comes along with being separated from someone you admire.  Continually, things like intramural sports and Amnesty International offer an outing that some people dearly miss when they are not able to go out with their boyfriend or girlfriend.