How do you save your marriage while saving the world? The forgotten casualties of war; marriage and relationships.

Maintaining an intimate bond with your partner while living miles apart is a challenge. In order to make this circumstance more workable, a couple should establish clear expectations and boundaries in order to stay connected. Calling or Skype everyday, although great in concept, it's not just realistic. With my wife, I was calling everyday, not to be nosy but doing it because I was in far away place and reassuring her everything was alright. She got annoyed quickly and here's why. It didn't give us the opportunity to share things with each other in a more meaningful way. We both had work schedules, she had her own things she needed to get done, places to go, people to see etc. Our boundary was we set a time each week for me to call, it gave us the opportunity to share our events over the week, it gave us a lot more to talk about.

Along the same lines, give your partner every reason to trust you. Don’t put yourself in risky situations and keep independent tendencies in check. Be sure to use discretion when spending time with members of the opposite sex and remind yourself that you are in a relationship even when your partner is somewhere else. When in doubt, ask yourself this: would this situation make your partner uncomfortable? If the answer is yes, you’d be smart to avoid anything similar in the future.

And as corny as it sounds, yea I read the 5 Love Languages, it helped, really it did.

Much much prayer.

Well for me personally before I even go into a relationship I let her know that we are both going to have to make sacrifices in order to make it work. And that it will be hard, but with hard work you definitely make the long haul.