Stay close in a long-distance relationship or friendship
A sustainable plan of rituals, calls, visits, and small gestures to keep a long-distance bond strong.
The prompt
Help me stay close to someone who lives far away.
Relationship: [partner / best friend / sibling / grandchild]
Distance and time difference: [e.g. "6-hour time difference", "3-hour drive"]
Our schedules: [WORK, SCHOOL, AVAILABLE WINDOWS]
How we connect now and what's not working: [e.g. "random texts, calls keep getting canceled"]
Budget for visits and gifts: [AMOUNT]
How long the distance will last: [KNOWN END DATE / UNKNOWN]
What each of us enjoys: [INTERESTS]
Give me:
1. A weekly rhythm: a realistic mix of quick daily contact and one longer call, scheduled around the time difference, shown as a simple table.
2. 12 shared-activity ideas for calls (watching something together, cooking the same recipe, games, reading the same book), sorted by effort.
3. Small gestures: low-cost ideas like mail, voice notes, photo swaps.
4. Visit planning: how often is affordable, and tips for making visits less pressured.
5. Talking about the hard parts: questions for discussing expectations, jealousy or missing out, and the long-term plan (for partners).
6. When one of us gets busy: how to say so without the other feeling dropped.
Keep it sustainable rather than intense.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- partner / best friend / sibling / grandchild
- e.g. "6-hour time difference", "3-hour drive"
- WORK, SCHOOL, AVAILABLE WINDOWS
- e.g. "random texts, calls keep getting canceled"
- AMOUNT
- KNOWN END DATE / UNKNOWN
- INTERESTS
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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