The phone company might think long distance is the next best thing to being there, but The Long-Distance Relationship Guide knows better: long-distance relationships require hard work, commitment, a sturdy travel bag, a good calling plan, a healthy sense of humor, supportive friends—and lots of travel-sized toiletries. Here’s everything you need to make sure your relationship goes the distance.

Learn how to:

• Spot the serial long-distance dater
• Prepare for “The Visit”
• Discover the joys of phone sex
• Write a juicy love letter
• Negotiate turn-taking visits
• Assess the “stand-in” boyfriend or girlfriend

Full of helpful quizzes, checklists, and advice from relationship experts and long-distance veterans, The Long-Distance Relationship Guide will help you make the most of your long-distance romance.

**This is the same book that came out in 2005, with some updated and added info, including an epilogue called “After Happily Ever After,” that looks at adapting to the shift from long-distance to close-distance, plus more quizzes and extras.

Reviews

Pick up Caroline Tiger’s tiny volume with the big title—‘The Long-Distance Relationship Guide: Advice for the Geographically Challenged’–and if you’re in an LDR (long-distance relationship), you will find consolation. You’ll also find a few laughs, a quiz or two, a history lesson (five words: you are not the first) plus an abundance of acronyms (LDP = long-distance partner, for example).” —Chicago Tribune

This guide is written in a straight-forward manner and offers useful advice. It probably won’t save troubled LDRs, but it certainly might ease the hardship of a good, solid one.” —St. Louis Post Dispatch

The little book, which will be re-released in September, is full of important information for couples that spend more time on the phone than in person. Based on scientific studies as well as first-hand stories, this little guide is what you need to help master the challenges of long-distance relationships.” —McClatchy-Tribune