long distance love?

I've lived 2 hours away from my boyfriend for a year, which I know isn't as far as 5 1/2 hours, but there are always things to do to make it work! Communicate as often as you can. Set up times each day that you both can take a break to talk. Also e-mail him and give him a stack of notes from you that he can open whenever he misses you. Make sure he has lots of pictures of the two of you around. At least you won't be apart for an entire year! Best of luck.

I don't have too much advise for that. I might be in the same situation if we can't sell our house before my husband is due at his new job. Good luck :)

Hopefully by now you are getting ready to welcome your husband back home on a permanent basis Pookie. It can be hard being separated I know, and this is what happened to my husband and I in the early years of our marriage, because of his job in the military. At one time he was overseas for 6 months and we did not see each other, but we did write letters every day plus talk on the phone once a month. In those days the cost of international phone calls was very high. Now our son is back home again, away from his girlfriend, and they are finding it tough too. So they send each other emails every day plus phone each other once a week and it seems to be going okay. He will be returning overseas in another couple of months, which means that he will be home with us for a maximum of 5 months, but probably less. I think that they will survive this separation and perhaps it will make their relationship stronger. It does seem to me that when we are apart from those we love, that we do share much more things on a daily basis. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that the reason for this is because we do not want the other person to miss out on anything when we are apart, although of course were we together than what "Fred" said to the dog would not rate a mention. LOL Chin up Pookie and the time will come when you are together again.

Well, this would be a hard thing to handle. I know I would not want to do it unless I had no choice, as in job position, medical emergency situation, etc. It would be hard and get expensive always wanting to see one another. But hopefully now you are still happily married, and things are better.

I so completely understand! My Husband got his dream job and had to move twelve hours away. He has been gone for six months now and I hate it! But, we talk on the phone every night and often times during the day. I have recently put the house on the market and the children and I will be moving when it sells. In the meantime, We send cards and letters and miss each other over the phone. I just try to look toward our future.

What a hard thing to get through! I guess you can do two particular things. Master the lost art of conversation. When you can't see someone you really have to put yourself in to the conversation because all you have is words. I know that sounds too simplistic. The other is something that hardly anyone does, and that is writing a letter. My mom has letters from when my dad lived 3 hours away while he was in college. Some of the sweetest and dearest things come from those letters. You can so freely express yourself in a letter that an e-mail can never convey. But good for you and I hope you two are doing OK!