LibraryScenariosWhen you perform your identity for your long-distance partner
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When you perform your identity for your long-distance partner

I change my profile photo thinking about whether he'll like it and realize I'm curating myself for an audience of one person who's supposed to love me as I am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital self-presentation can infiltrate even intimate relationships with performance anxiety.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Long-distance relationships via technology?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.