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For Long-Distance Partners

A Relationship Workbook for Staying Connected Across Miles, Time Zones, and Life Phases

Distance doesn't break relationships. Undefined expectations do.

This is for:

For partners separated by geography who want written agreements on communication, visits, and when the distance ends — before the distance decides for them.

You'll produce:your Long-Distance Shared Agreement

The Name It First Experience

Long-distance relationships don't fail because of the miles. They fail because the two people in them never agreed on the plan: how often to talk, when to visit, when the distance ends, and what they're each allowed to need while they're waiting. For Long-Distance Partners is a structured working process for naming those agreements before the distance does the deciding. You'll name the communication expectations, the visit schedule, the timeline toward closing the gap, and what each of you needs in order to stay in the relationship with your full self. The output is The Long-Distance Shared Agreement: a named document governing how your relationship operates while the distance is real.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What holds this relationship together when you cannot be in the same room — and have you ever said that out loud to the person you are with?
  2. What assumption about how often you should talk, visit, or make decisions together have you never actually discussed — and how does it show up when it gets violated?
  3. What would The Long-Distance Shared Agreement need to include — specifically — for this relationship to feel governed rather than improvised?

Research basis

Stafford (long-distance maintenance) / Merolla (relational maintenance across distance) / Gottman (maintenance behaviors)

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

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Built for two. You each work your own copy, on your own time — then you bring them together and compare, one answer at a time.

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