LavaLife Offers Military Dating Tips
(Online Dating Canada) Canadian Online Dating Service, LavaLife, is offering up some dating tips for dating in the military. The five tips are aimed at easing the difficulty many men or women face when dating someone in the Canadian Forces. Here are the five tips:
1) Keep lines of communication open
When your partner is deployed, you have to communicate however you can. Emailing is the easiest and most accessible option, but try to chat by phone as much as possible too. Hearing your loved one’s voice on the other end of the line always makes you feel closer. Getting a piece of home is always welcome too, so sending care packages and snail mail letters are always a great way of showing you care.
2) Trust each other
As in any relationship, trust is an ultimate key. Whether your significant other is five or 5,000 miles away, trusting one another fully will insure long lasting strength in any relationship.
3) Value the time you can spend together
For those who do fall in love with military personnel, it’s not all about hardship. In times of peace many soldiers often are able to finish work early and the military tries to plan their operations around the school year so that personnel can spend as much time with their families as possible. Use this time to plan a romantic weekend away or take a fun vacation with the family.
4) Be independent and learn to take care of yourself
It’s important to redefine your idea of “partnership” and be able to stand on your own for long periods of time while your other half is on duty. Your boyfriend/husband will feel better knowing that you will be okay while he is away serving the country.
5) Build a solid support network of friends and family while your loved one is away
“I am very close with the wives and girlfriends of the deployed soldiers from my boyfriend’s unit. While the men are gone, we all stay very close. We help each other. We support each other. And we take care of each other when one of us needs it,” says Mikki Glass, a New Yorker who is dating a First Sergeant in the US Army.
