The love of your life could be living in any part of the world. Have you ever thought about how you could achieve a long-distance relationship? Listed below are what I think to be the five most important tips to sustaining a healthy long-distance relationship.

1. Communication

You want to make sure that you and your partner are effectively communicating. Nowadays, we have different social media platforms to communicate on, smartphones where you can text, call, FaceTime, Skype, or even ooVoo. You do want to creatively communicate regularly, but should avoid excessive communication. Give each other time to miss one another. If you're talking 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you're bound to burn out really fast. The worst thing would be to become bored of one another.

2. Setting Ground Rules

Setting ground rules is very important. You and your partner need to establish what you will and will not accept. Define your commitment level. Is this relationship more monogamous or open? You don't want any surprises. This should be done immediately to avoid conflicts down the road.

3. Visit Each Other

This is a necessity. You can't hope to achieve a successful relationship is never get to see your partner.

4. Have a Common Goal

What are you guys trying to achieve out of this relationship? The seriousness of the relationship should be established first. But, you want to make sure that you both want the same thing. You don't want it to be set up as you want something exclusive with one day hopes of moving in together and getting married and your partner just wants someone to vibe with every now and then when they're in town. Having a common goal is key and will spare feelings.

5. Honesty!

Honesty is actually one of the keys to being successful in life period. Being several miles away from your partner, you guys must maintain trust. In order to maintain a trusting healthy relationship you must always remain honest. Seriously who would want to be with someone who they can't trust, especially when they're miles away from you.

There are probably a hundred tips for having a successful happy long-distant relationship, these five are what I consider to be the most important. These tips should all be established and defined before you and your partner make any further steps. Good luck!