How do you stay intimate with loved ones who live far away?

There has never been a better time to do this then now. Are you kidding? With the technology the way it is?

To begin, cell phones put you up close and personal. Then there’s Twitter. You can use Skype to videoconference, there’s e-mail, and Facebook to share pictures.

With each new technology that comes along, the world gets smaller and smaller. Eventually, there won’t be a “far away”.

My son is living in Paris right now with his wife who is pregnant. His internet plan includes free calls to the States so we talk fairly frequently. In addition, we e-mail, chat and occasionally video-chat using Skype or gmail’s video-chat. We will be using video even more when the baby is born in June. I feel like we are as close as we ever were, but I do miss the face time. (And will miss it even more when the baby is born!)

Email.
That’s it.

actually. i love getting snail mail. send them a kiss in a card!
texts, calls, emails, facbook/myspace/twitter comments.
nothing better than getting a
i love @A_Beaverhausen

video chat is the shit too

Skype!

<<< Loves plain ol’ snail mail, and vinyl.

email, text, phone, videocall, letters, send little things (flowers) in the post to suprise them.

I keep in contact with them by email, telephone, and instant messaging and I try to visit them at least once a year if it is affordable for me to do so.

A friend described Skype to me the other day and I’m thinking about trying it out. It would seem like a great way to communicate with someone.

I like sending pieces of myself to them, so they don’t forget what I’m like. So far, it’s been ears and toes, and such, but pretty soon, this going to get serious, and I might have to consider less intimacy, or, shudder, even finding a more local woman.

I talk to my mom every single day. We talk via msn messenger because its free and we can have videoconference calls. Then theres facebook. My dad has a blackberry so I stay in touch with him via blackberry messenger. I miss them to death, but talking to them all day long makes it easier.

I stay intimate by use of memories. Like during a phone conversation with my far away son,I relay memories of when he was small in comparison to what he’s conveying about his children. It always gets the laughter going and those good feelings that I miss by distance.