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When you can't physically comfort your long-distance partner

She's going through a hard time with her family and all I can do is send heart emojis and it feels pathetically inadequate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital presence highlights rather than bridges the fundamental limitation of not being able to offer physical comfort.

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.