Whenever you’re in a relationship with a person who lives near by, you receive the best of human being closeness: Seeing some body in real world. However in long-distance relationships, you have to put up with facsimiles.

For Connell Barrett, a dating advisor for The League and creator of DatingTransformation, the easiest way making it work is making use of several different kinds of interaction.

“With today’s technology, you will find countless approaches to do that: texting, sexting, Facetime, video clip and sound clips, ” he says.