All you can do is talk on the phone. These relationships suffer most of the time, unless the two people realize that they are going to simply learn how to live without their mate for awhile. Some people actually live with so much that when their mate comes back, they are seen as more of a nuissance or distraction, or they are seen as a stranger again. Only those rare special make-you-want-to-throw-up couples can handle these LDR the best.