Memory night
Scroll your phone photos back to the very beginning and pick three favourites each. Tell each other what happened just before and just after.
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Long-distance date ideas
34 long-distance date ideas: a synced film, a video call dinner, online games and small everyday rituals. For couples with kilometres in between.
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Memory night
Scroll your phone photos back to the very beginning and pick three favourites each. Tell each other what happened just before and just after.Long-distance date ideas
Three-game tournament
Three games, three rounds and a prize for the winner agreed in advance. For example Ludo, Categories and a deck of cards.
🔗 Handy: CategoriesSpeed portraits
Sit facing each other and draw each other in two minutes. Then in one. Then with your eyes closed.
A shared bucket list
Write a list of 20 things you want to do one day. From small ones for this month to big ones for a lifetime.
Horoscope and tea
Make tea, check your couple horoscope for today and talk about what it got right and where the stars overdid it.
🔗 Handy: Couple horoscope for todayPilot night
Pick a series neither of you has seen and watch only the first episode. Then vote: do we keep going?
Open-when notes
Write each other three notes labelled: open when you feel sad, when you miss me, when you have a bad day.
The quiz about you
Prepare ten questions about yourselves each and see who knows whom better. Whoever loses makes the tea.
🔗 Handy: How Well Do You Know Me?The playlist of your story
Make a playlist together: one song for every important moment, from the first message until today.
Would You Rather over dinner
Play Would You Rather while you eat. Reveal your picks on three, and every difference is a topic for a longer chat.
🔗 Handy: Would You Rather?Five minutes of breathing together
Sit back to back and breathe in one rhythm for five minutes. The first minute feels odd, then it gets very soothing.
🔗 Handy: Breathe togetherA test and a talk
Take the Love Styles test separately, then compare results over tea. The differences are the interesting part.
🔗 Handy: Love Styles testA language for one evening
Choose a language neither of you speaks and learn 20 words. In the evening, talk using only those.
A song about you
Write a verse about yourselves to a melody you know well. Recording it as a keepsake is mandatory.
Letters on paper
Write each other real letters, with a pen, on paper, and post them. Even if you live together.
Gratitude meditation
Ten minutes, two cushions and a short meditation for couples. At the end, one sentence each: what I am grateful for today.
🔗 Handy: Couple meditationDream trip planning
Pick a dream country and plan the route day by day, as if the trip were next month. Who knows, maybe it will be.
Cocoa and plans for next year
A mug of cocoa and one sheet of paper: three things you want to do together next year. The sheet goes on the fridge.
A synced movie night
Pick a film, press play at exactly the same second and text each other comments. The popcorn break is shared.
A video call dinner
Cook the same dish from the same recipe, each in your own kitchen, and eat it together on camera.
A puzzle parcel
Send each other parcels with five little things and one riddle. Open them together, on video.
An online game night
Play together online: Ludo, Who’s More Likely or Categories. Whoever loses plans the next date.
🔗 Handy: Who’s More Likely…A walking call
Go for a walk at the same time, each in your own city, and describe to each other what you see as you go.
Countdown to the next visit
Set a shared countdown to your next visit and plan one thing for each day you will have together.
A map of your places
Pin on a shared map every place that reminds you of each other, and one you want to visit together.
Bedtime reading
Choose a book and read it to each other over the phone in turns, a chapter before sleep.
36 questions on video
36 Questions for Love works long distance too: take turns asking, then finish with four minutes of looking into the camera.
🔗 Handy: 36 Questions for LoveA breakfast call before work
Once a week, have breakfast together on video, even if it is just fifteen minutes before you leave.
Truth or Dare on camera
Truths work over the phone as they are, and pick dares that can be done in front of the camera.
🔗 Handy: Truth or DareAn online course together
Sign up for the same free online course, cooking or photography for example, and do the lessons at the same time.
Same photo, two places
For a week, send each other a daily photo on the same theme: the sky, your mug, the view from the window. Make a collage at the end.
The same sky
Step outside at the same time in the evening and find the Moon. Yes, it is the same one.
First Dates questions
Open the First Dates set and take turns asking. Light, funny and without awkward silences.
🔗 Handy: First DatesTwo truths and a lie
Each of you tells three things about yourself, and one of them is made up. A great way to get to know each other and laugh.
🔗 Handy: Two Truths and a LieA few tips
- Set a regular time. A ritual every Thursday at 8 pm beats one big date a month.
- Do the same thing at the same time: the same film, the same dish, the same book. A shared experience shrinks the distance.
- Always know the date of your next visit. A countdown gives strength for the days apart.
How do you have a long-distance date?
Pick one shared thing and do it at the same time: a film started at the same second, a video call dinner or an online game. Regularity matters more than the format.
How do you feel closer in a long-distance relationship?
Small daily rituals: the Question of the Day, a good-morning note, a photo of the same thing, bedtime reading. Plus a countdown to the next visit and a plan for your days together.
A date is just the start
In Liskove a game, a question and a small ritual wait for every evening. After the date there is your shared fox, which grows with every moment together.
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