Any tips on keeping the costs down in a long distance relationship?

whitfreak

On the comunications fronts, it might also be worth checking you mobile tariff.

For example I believe you can get unlimited O2 to O2 mins if you are on a tariff costing more that £15 a month. Obviously you'll need to weight up any changes with your other useage as well.

You don't mention how old you or your partner are, but if you are under 26 then getting a young persons rail/coach card will probably pay off quite quickly.

And I like pinkduvetdiva's idea of finding things you can do together without being physically together. Although that might require a mutual love of chess/scrabble/random box sets.

roadiegirl

Me and my boyfriend are about 50 miles from each other, but ring and skype every night and I drive back home every other weekend to spend time with him. It can work and I hope it does for you OP.

tinksy

I was in a long distance relationship as a student (now been married to him for two years!) and money saving was pretty important.

We lived minutes walk from each other in the first year and that summer we saw each other every couple of weekends. Split ticketing on the train works, travelling at weird hours works.

The second year we saw each other every weekend pretty much and then moved in together at the start of my third year at uni.

We had a stretch living apart last year when my hubby was training in gloucester for four months and could only come home at weekends. Although his work paid for petrol so we could always see each other, the stress of being apart, working full time and the fact I was poorly was hard work but we made it through and we are stronger for it.

If you want to make it work you can. It means sacrifices, it means hard work but I wouldn't change my hubby for the world.

danothy

pinkduvetdiva wrote: »

My ex and I each bought a Buffy the Vampire Slayer box set, and would watch the same episode at the same time on our laptops while commenting on MSN about the on-screen action. Obviously the choice of DVD would be up to you and your OH! :rotfl:

This sounds like a great idea and we have found that we often have the same thing on the tv when talking over the interwebs, I just hope it's got nothing to do with why they are now an ex for you though

whitfreak wrote: »

On the comunications fronts, it might also be worth checking you mobile tariff.

For example I believe you can get unlimited O2 to O2 mins if you are on a tariff costing more that £15 a month. Obviously you'll need to weight up any changes with your other useage as well.

You don't mention how old you or your partner are, but if you are under 26 then getting a young persons rail/coach card will probably pay off quite quickly.

And I like pinkduvetdiva's idea of finding things you can do together without being physically together. Although that might require a mutual love of chess/scrabble/random box sets.

We both get a decent number of texts and call time without spending too much at the moment. Land line is free evenings and weekends too.

Unfortunately neither of us are under 26, although I think I would qualify for a railcard as I'm still a student technically. I don't tend to use the train to visit her though, so I'm not 100% sure it would be worth it.