by Chelsea Mcgovern

Created on: June 28, 2009   Last Updated: July 01, 2009

The smell of new love is enlightening in a sensual way. The feel of a warm body under your finger prints, pressing marks against someone else's body, for the first time. Seeing a smile, and hearing a laugh with your own giggles is the best cure for depression. In addition, smelling a combination of a person's natural scent, in combination of everything else is incomparable. However, even with today's ever growing, technological advancements in communication, people can still only reproduce two of the five senses. This includes sight, via web-cam, and sound via phone connection. The rest is left to the imagination, which can be hard, as its been established by scientific advancement that "touch" is potent in development for humans from an early age. (The Importance of Touch, Introduction, Tiffany Fields PhD). Contact is necessary for health, and human development, deprivation can cause emotional discrepancy. So how can this be simulated?

It also often depends, how long "long distance" is, but on a less sentimental side, long distance relationships can get expensive, with monthly phone bills, Internet, cost of gas, and air travel, yet starting a whole new relationship, in the long run, costs much more on both the physical and emotional levels. A good idea would be to establish one or two solid communications that fit within the budget of you and your sweetheart.

A simple romantic suggestion to answer both of the stated questions would to manually mail letters via the postal service. It's the cost of paper, pen, envelopes and a stamp. It's simple, old-fashioned, and you can personalize it. If you have a favorite cologne or perfume, lightly spray or dab the envelope with it. This is so the person receiving the letter will sense it and remember all the memories and sensual aspects of what being together felt like. It most certainly helps the imagination. One can also send occasional little gifts, that mean something more. This is just so the person knows, that there may be times when you are not together, but you are still thinking of them, always. Hopefully a few hobbies established between one another, that don't require physical contact, like writing or Internet games, so you can still spend fun times together, picking at each others brain, and nothing gets mundane.

Voice is the second runner up, to the sense of touch. A phone call can make a difference between a good mood and a bad day, or a good and bad relationship. In a long distance relationship, whether

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