Keeping The Spark In Your Online Dates
Online dating means you’ll meet people from all around the country – and potentially from all around the world. This is wonderful, because it opens up your dating pool by a huge amount, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a little problematic; you might not be able to spend as much time with your new date face-to-face as you would ideally like, and long distance relationships can be taxing. It’s worth bearing in mind however that they’ve actually never been easier – and here are a few ways to keep the spark in your online relationship.
Use Video Chat Services As Often As Possible
IMs, emails and phone calls are all great – but you can’t beat being able to see someone’s face and talk to them practically in person. Video chat services give you the next best thing to actually being with someone, and they make any conversation seem far more intimate and real. There’s a lot you can do with these services – if you wanted, to, you could even sleep ‘together’ by both putting your laptops down on the pillow next to you and leaving the video chat open overnight. It’s not quite as good as genuinely waking up next to someone, but it’s as close as you can sometimes get.
Watch Films And Television Together
This is a lot simpler than you might imagine – all you need to do is pick an online streaming service, find something you both want to see, hit ‘play’ at the same time and keep your video chat going while you watch. It’s nearly as good as curling up on the sofa with someone to watch whatever it is together in person.
Explore Online Gaming
There are thousands of different ways to game online, and pretty much everyone who spends much time using the internet now has tried at least a few of them. The things you can do are many and varied – try simple social games on Facebook for something casual that you can each do whenever you happen to have a moment, or look into a more elaborate multiplayer game for an experience that involves spending lots of time together. You could build yourselves a castle together in Minecraft, or level together in World of Warcraft, or have an entire online virtual relationship in Second Life.
Whatever you choose to do, it’s important that you spend as much quality time together as possible – no matter how far apart you are.