Long-Distance Relationships and the Pandemic — 7 Tips on How to Flourish

What I have learned over the past year in an LDR.

Ian Vanderlinden
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readApr 16, 2021

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Man and woman sit on bench overlooking beautiful mountain range and lake.
Photo by Andre Furtado from Pexels

I met my girlfriend last May, two months into the Covid 19 lockdowns. I didn’t meet her at a concert or a bar, nor some other social gathering (those had become a big no-no). I met her on Tinder, and in the words of the late Billy Mays, “Wait, there’s more!”

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Ian Vanderlinden
ILLUMINATION

Lover of stories, listener of rock, and consumer of ramen. An old soul aiming to integrate with modernity.