Juggling Time Zones
Relationships stretched across multiple time zones can be especially tricky because, when you do get to talk to each other, you might be in very different states of mind. When my guy was in the U.K., and I was in California, this was real issue—we’d talk during my mid-morning, when I was just getting into my studying/writing/grading groove, and during his evening, when he was coming down from his own work day. It took some real time and effort to learn to communicate on the same wavelength—without my stresses about the day ahead conflicting with his exhaustion from the day he just had.