In our modern age of technology, we’re able to meet and have relationships with people like never before. You’ve probably heard this several times before, right? It’s true, but it can be a little tricky to find solid ideas for making a long distance feel a little closer.

I don’t intend to discuss an exhaustive list of all the things that a person can do in order to make their relationship work, but I am going to write about one thing that I do with my mate for our date nights. Hopefully you’re able to make this work for you and benefit from it.

Movie night!

It’s been a time honored tradition to take your date to the movies, but how do you do that when you obviously can’t just pick them up at 8:00?

On a typical movie night for us, we’ll start up a video chat with our computers near where we’re sitting, and then just put a movie on our televisions across the room. Sometimes we stream a movie on the internet, sometimes we’ll play one that we both have a physical copy of. Regardless of which method we use, We do our best to sync up the playback (we do a countdown to press play, and then if the playback is slightly off, we’ll fine tune with the pause button until our audio syncs up on the video chat.)

If we really want to enhance the experience, we’ll plan ahead to get the same snacks/food to have while we’re watching movies. It works out pretty well, sometimes so well that I forget that we’re not really in the same room. Just make sure your internet connection can handle streaming movies and video-chatting at the same time.

I hope this helps you with your own date nights!