Maintaining Long Distance And Cross Residential Relationships

This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance. By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types, such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining, rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties. With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships, Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology, sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and family studies.

The parting of the ways is inevitable in life and during the period between teen years and adulthood is even more likely due to the constraints of university choices. Other reasons why there may be long distance relationships is because not every part of the world has the job availability and often people go away from home to work for a while, to gain the extra experience that they need in order to jump up the ladder in their own hometowns. There can be any number of reasons why people find themselves in a long distance relationship, especially since the birth of the internet because romances often bloom online and promises are made that are in fact just as serious as those made face to face. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... • Can you survive a long distance relationship? • Communicating regularly and staying committed • Trust in your long distance relationship • Being creative in your long distance relationship • Making that time together count • Being there for each other • Finally moving to the same place together Living apart might be challenging, but even though you currently live apart, there are plenty of things you can do together and methods to hang out. You can find the answers to your queries and fixes for your issues within the pages of this book. Most importantly, though, you'll learn how to communicate with your partner so that you two may enjoy yourselves more and become closer.

This book will be your guide to make your long distance relationship work. A love relationship is not only about roses, but also about its thorns. While falling in love might be the easier thing to do, keeping a relationship alive can be demanding. But, it gets even more difficult if the two lovers are separated by miles of distance. One needs to constantly work on the relationship. There can be many issues and problems that can threaten a long distance relationship. Issues, such as jealousy and insecurity constantly hover around such a relationship. A deep understanding of them will help you to avoid them at the first place and deal with them effectively if you get to face them. Along with love, the right intention and lots of hard work is required to head in the right direction in the relationship. It is imperative that the one constantly works on the relationship. While it can be difficult, it is definitely not impossible. With some dedicated efforts and some tips, you will do just fine.

The Long Distance Relationship Guidebook is the definitive book on strengthening your long distance relationship (LDR). Its inspirational, no-nonsense advice and discussions are based on years of research and the author's personal experience. It is meant for all couples who have had time to establish their connection and are now facing the challenge of spending time and distance apart. Inside you will find: * 8 key elements to LDR success * 3 discussions you must have * 6 serious LDR problems * 28 red-alert warning signs * 17 ways to harmonize your moments * simple and high-technology ideas * advice based on interviews and surveys * fun and easy activity and gift ideas * case studies With the Long Distance Relationship Guidebook in hand, learn what you can do to bolster, nurture, impassion and protect your relationship, as well as foresee problems before they arise. This book will guide you through rough spots, and inspire you to create incredible moments that will have long-lasting positive effects on your unique relationship.

The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships is the communication field’s most major, comprehensive volume of the study of social media and romantic relationship development. It is the first volume in the discipline of communication studies intended to provide an overview of romantic development that includes all types of social media, such as Tinder and Facebook. The volume contains several major communication and media scholars who have researched social media and romantic relationship development.

Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on behaviors and strategies used to maintain intimate relationships.

Lynne M. Webb (Ph. D., University of Oregon) is Professor in Communication at the University of Arkansas. She previously served as a tenured faculty member at the Universities of Florida and Memphis. Her research examines young adults' interpersonal communication in romantic and family contexts. Her research appears in over 50 essays published in scholarly journals and edited volumes, including computers in Human Behavior, Communication Education, Health Communication, and Journal of Family Communication. --Book Jacket.

Relational maintenance provides a rallying point for those seeking to discover the behaviors that individuals utilize to sustain their personal relationships. Theoretical models, research programs, and specific studies have examined how people in a variety of close relationships choose to define and maintain those relationships. In addition, relational maintenance turns our attention to communicative processes that help people sustain their close relationships. In this collection, editors Daniel J. Canary and Marianne Dainton focus on the communicative processes critical to the maintenance and enhancement of personal relationships. The volume considers variations in maintaining different types of personal relationships; structural constraints on relationship maintenance; and cultural variations in relational maintenance. Contributions to the volume cover a broad range of relational types, including romantic relationships, family relationships, long-distance relationships, workplace relationships, and Gay and Lesbian relationships, among others. Maintaining Relationships Through Communication: Relational, Contextual, and Cultural Variations synthesizes current research in relationship maintenance, emphasizes the ways that behaviors vary in their maintenance functions across relational contexts, discusses alternative explanations for maintaining relationships, and presents avenues for future research. As such, it is intended for students and scholars studying interpersonal communication and personal relationships.