{"id":8412,"date":"2014-07-01T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2016-03-28T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T03:04:29","slug":"ways-to-maintain-a-international-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/2014\/07\/01\/ways-to-maintain-a-international-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to Maintain A International Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It will soon be 8 years since Jeff and I started dating.<\/p>\n

8 years will take a new born baby to elementary school.<\/p>\n

I am very impressed by myself for being in a relationship for this long.<\/p>\n

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It is difficult to maintain a relationship going, especially maintaining a international relationship. <\/span><\/p>\n

Language barrier and cultural barrier make things more difficult for international couples. <\/span><\/p>\n

Among all difficulties, I believe long distance relationship is the most difficult. (Jeff and I had long term relationship for 4 years.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Although Jeff is way from his home in Taiwan, but he can go home if he really wants to. <\/span><\/p>\n

Taiwan is not that far. In fact, he really wanted to go home after we fought or after he got depressed from his work.<\/span><\/p>\n

I actually want to share few points on how to maintain \u00a0a relationship today:<\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Study Jeff\u2019s mother tongue – Chinese<\/span><\/h5>\n

I have been learning Chinese since I was studying in the States. (Well, I have not been studying much lately\u2026..) <\/span><\/p>\n

Although we are able to communicate in English but I think Jeff will be very happy if I can talk to him in his native language.<\/p>\n

Jeff has become so good at Japanese.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s my turn to master Chinese now!<\/p>\n

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2. Support what Jeff wants to do in Japan<\/span><\/h5>\n

I admire people who left their countries and their home for their loved ones. <\/span><\/p>\n

I think Jeff is really brave to leave Taiwan for me. <\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, I really want to support Jeff on what he enjoys doing in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff is very into \u201cself-improvement\u201d.<\/p>\n

He attends many self-improvement seminars and he also purchased many self-development books.<\/p>\n

He recently started his own PhotoReading practice events in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

For those self-improvement programs require a partner, I will be his partner. <\/span><\/p>\n

For those requires concentration, I will leave him alone so he can concentrate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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3. Cook Taiwanese food to catch his heart<\/span><\/h5>\n

I think I have been pretty good at cooking. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have been studying on Taiwanese food and Chinese food on the Internet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Japan, we say “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I am not so sure how it is in other countries. <\/span><\/p>\n

But I think this applies on Jeff and it works really well so far. <\/span><\/p>\n

He gets so excited and happy every time when I make Taiwanese dishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I guess the most important point is to find the way to make the other one happy. <\/span><\/p>\n

I am happy when I see him smile. <\/span><\/p>\n

To make each other happy and respect each other are the best ways to maintain a relationship and they work very well on long term relationship, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It will soon be 8 years since Jeff and I started dating.<\/p>\n

8 years will take a new born baby to elementary school.<\/p>\n

I am very impressed by myself for being in a relationship for this long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-8412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-love-story","tag-international-relationship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8415,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions\/8415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}