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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nMy experience with long-distance relationships has been limited, and pretty awful, if we're being honest here. In short: I moved across the country, my BF at the time came to visit me and ended up \"getting kissed\" by another girl (riiiight), then pretty much all of our long-distance phone convos after that consisted of me crying. Pretty sweet, huh?So, naturally, I was shocked to read a new study showing that long-distance couples may be closer, emotionally, than ones who live in the same city. Researchers from City University of Hong Kong and Cornell University asked both kinds of couples to report their daily interactions, face-to-face, phone calls, video chat, texting, instant messenger, and email.Then, for a week, they reported how much they shared about themselves and felt intimate with their partners. Overall, long-distance couples experienced more intimacy, which researchers think is because they shared more about themselves and, interestingly enough, they tended to idealize their partners.\u00A0In other words, absence literally made their hearts grow fonder.Granted, the study was a look at just one week into the lives of these couples, but this is good news for the many twosomes who do actually live apart. According to this study's data, three million American married couples don't live together. (I actually know quite a few engaged and married couples myself who live apart due to their jobs or because of where they got into grad school.)What's your experience with long-distance been like?\u00A0Disaster or epic romance?Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook.Photo:\u00A0Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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