We have heard many an adage about long distance love. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Familiarity breeds contempt. We have been taught to believe that an estranged heart yearns for love. However easy it may sound, living apart from your sweetheart is the toughest challenge of love.

The Challenges of Long Distance Relationships
When your dearest has to shift base, you have little choice but to let him go.

You know that life will be difficult, and fear engulfs you. What if your sweetheart forgets your love? What if love fades from the relationship? What if you are unable to live without your love?

While it is natural to feel insecure, you must restore your faith in your relationship. A little space in the relationship will not hurt. In fact, it can strengthen your bond. Find the courage to set your love free. Don't let the bonds of love smother your free spirit. It may take a while to get used to this freedom. But only when you set your love free will you know whether your love is true or not.

Long Distance Relationship With Grown Up Kids
When the bird is ready to fly from the nest, the mother bird cannot restrain her brood. Growing up is a part of nature, and eventually all children will have to move on to make it on their own. As a parent, it is your duty to nurture your child to grow into independent adults. Though you may fret about your child's welfare, you must find the courage to let your child spread out his wings.

Keep Family Ties Intact
Keep in touch with your child through text messages, phone calls, emails, and social networking. If possible, visit your child at least once a year. Keep your child informed about every little detail of your family life, so that he feels connected. Try to resolve conflicts and issues through personal meetings, rather than through phone calls and emails. Express your love to your child every time you get in touch with him. Love is an invisible and invincible bond that permeates through all dimensions of distance.

The Final Verdict: Long Distance Relationships Are Never Easy
Whoever said that long distance relationships are easy has only lived in fairytales. Most long distance relationships are overstretched until they snap. Loneliness creeps in, and often drives a wedge between partners. Moreover it would take enormous strength of character to stay faithful. Trust stands of shaky grounds, often being challenged by real or imaginary demons.

If you are a romantic, and believe in your love, you can make long distance relationships work. To make it work, your partner and you need to have a strong bond of trust and love. In addition, you have to work extra hard to keep the relationship going.

How to Make Long Distance Relationship Work
Connect, connect, connect! I can't overemphasize the importance of connection to keep your relationship alive. You can counter the lack of physical proximity by keeping in touch. You can connect more than once a day if possible, in as many ways as possible.

Think of creative ideas to express your love. It is no use bottling up your feelings when you are so far away from your lover. An occasional gift, or a love message, or even an sms love quotes can touch hearts. Here are some touching long distance relationship quotes. Use them to express your deepest love. Regardless of the distance, these quotes will surely warm hearts.

Hawthorne Heights, Somewhere In Between
I'll turn my back and walk away, away from the pain. Scream it loud; drown it out by the sound of the rain. Listen up; I've had enough all this waiting. I need you more right now than I ever did!

Pedro Calderon de la Barca
When love is not madness, it is not love.

Mignon McLaughlin
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

Fyodor Dostoevski
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Paul Valery
It would be impossible to love anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

E. E. Cummings
I carry your heart with me.

Kay Knudsen
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

Michel de Montaigne
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Hans Nouwens
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

G. K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Anita Brookner
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Erica Jong
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Colley Cibbe
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Elizabeth Bowen
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.

Torquato Tasso
Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where you used to be, there's a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Emily Dickinson
Morning without you is dwindled dawn.

Thomas Haynes Bayly
Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Gilbert Parker
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Doug Fetherling
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

Jon Oliva
If I go away
What would still remain of me?
The ghost within your eyes?
The whisper in your sighs?
You see... Believe
And I'm always there.

George Eliot
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love, which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Pam Brown
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away -- and leaves behind only silence.

Edward Thomas
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

Pablo Neruda
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

John Masefield
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

Boy George
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.