75 Activities & Ideas and counting!

People in long distance relationships can have a hard time staying connected, because couples are limited in what they can do together. Many are limited to phone calls, emails, instant messaging, and texting which can become a bit humdrum over time, if you ask me. It is important to keep things interesting. Here is a list of things you can do with your boyfriend/girlfriend as well as things you can do for them from a distance.

Michelle & Frank

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1. Watch things simultaneously together!

Watch the same movie or TV show at the same time. Frank and I have used these sites:

• SideReel.com This site has a ton of TV shows that you can watch online commercial free. We especially loved watching the show Dexter together. We would make a date night and watch a show online and have our webcams going at the same time. It's not the same as cuddling up on the couch, but it's as close as we could get! This is a good idea if you find yourself running out of things to talk about on the phone... doing this takes off the pressure of talking since you'll both be into the show/movie, plus it gives you something to talk about afterward!


• WatchTVsitcoms.com

2. Send your boyfriend/girlfriend flowers!

There are lots of websites that will deliver flowers for you, but if you don't want to spend money sending a real bouquet, you can send a virtual bouquet using this website. I just got done sending Frank some roses myself :) Flowers2mail.com. Another website that lets you send either real or virtual flowers is Virtualflowers.com

Want to send real flowers? ProFlowers has affordable prices. Click here to see pictures of the flowers Frank got me from Proflowers.com


For other flower and gift options we also suggest these sites:
Flower.com
From You Flowers!

3. Play a game together.

Frank and I just love playing multiplayer games together online. Check out our list of multiplayer games here: Multiplayer Games for LDR Couples

4. Webcams + IM + YouTube = Fun!

First of all, if you don't already have a webcam, get one! You'll be glad you did. An online application Frank and I have been using is available through Ekko.tv. It lets you use your favorite instant messenger (choose from AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Chat, & Google Talk), your webcam, and it also lets you watch YouTube videos simultaneously with the person you're having a webcam chat with all in one browser window. How cool is that? There is nothing to install and it's completely free to use. Frank and I use it all the time and it has become our main method of online communication. To go straight to chatting right now go here: Use Ekko.tv now!



Skype is a free video chat service that is very popular with our LFAD Members.

Call anywhere in the world for free on the 3 Skypephone.

Frank and I also use GMail Video Chat. We like that it lets us customize the size of the window and we can even increase the size up to full screen without much loss of quality.

5. Send an e-card!

I know you've probably seen this suggestion before. Tired of lame e-cards? You'll get a kick out of Someecards.com (Thinking of You section). These e-cards are hilarious! If you're easily offended by vulgar language, this site isn't for you. Want something a bit more romantic? Check out these LDR e-cards.

6. HoochyMail!

Okay, so maybe Frank doesn't like this one so much... HoochyMail is a website where you enter information and it automatically generates a story with your names in a MadLib type fashion. You choose the story level: sexy, x-rated, or off the wall. I did this for Frank, and cried laughing reading the story the website generated. I think Frank just stared at his computer with his eyebrows bunched up.

7. Say cheese!

Before Frank and I had webcams, I would occasionally take a picture and email it to him so he could see me. He always loved it :) If he was having a bad day they would cheer him up. Here are some other picture related ideas:

• Picaboo lets you design awesome photobooks. It's like modern scrapbooking without scissors, glue, and the mess. You design it digitally and picaboo prints it! To register for free and download their free program click the link below:

  
  Picaboo - Create a Photo Book. Fast, easy, fun and beautiful. Special Offer: buy 1 get 1 free!
  
• Create online photo albums for each other. Some good sites: Flickr.com and Webshots.com


• Get creative and edit your pictures with this free imaging tool (tons of awesome effects!) Picnik.com

8. Share a journal.

I wanted to do this with Frank, but he's lazy. I had this brilliant idea for us to share a journal. I would keep it for a couple weeks or so, and write in it everyday with my thoughts, and then mail it to Frank, and he could keep the journal and write in it, and it would just keep going back and forth. I thought it was a good idea. Maybe your boyfriends/girlfriends will be more willing participants than Frank! Other journal ideas? You could also each have your own journals that you can exchange. Or have an online journal. Here are a couple sites: Xanga.com and LiveJournal.com. These both have privacy controls so you can control who sees your journal.

9. Write a letter.

You've probably seen this one before, but it is really a good idea. Handwritten letters are really nice to get and can be fun to write. I love seeing Frank's messy handwriting, haha, so much character. Letters can mean so much more than an email. Here are some sites with free printable stationary!

• Canon Free Stationary (you can make your own cute envelopes too!)


• FreePrintableStationary.net


• If you need letter ideas this book will help provide you with some great examples: Love Letters & Poems to Send Right Now - also includes love emails

10. Learn new things about each other.

Think you have run out of everything you could say to each other? Try this.... When it's one of those days where you guys just can't think of anything to talk about, try asking questions. Here's a good site with 100 questions to ask your love: 100 Questions to Know Your Partner. These questions are great discussion starters.

For even more questions check out 1,000 Questions For Couples. I got this e-book myself and Frank during a rough time in our relationship. We were running out of things to say, and we were arguing a lot, mainly because we had nothing else to talk about. So I got this book and Frank and I spent hours one night asking each other the questions. It was so memorable, and we had more fun than what we had in a long time. The questions are split up into categories such as "Attractions," "Past & Future," "Money," "Pets," "Sex," and tons more. You'll learn so much about each other, stuff you never knew. On a side note, by going through this e-book together, it will make it easy to bring up difficult questions you may have wanted to ask your boyfriend/girlfriend but were afraid to ask.

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