~EXPLICIT SEX~(near the end of the chapter)
(Diane Lewis from Statio 19 makes an appearance)
The distance between Los Angeles and Washington DC may as well be twenty-three thousand miles instead of 2,300. Even pre-COVID wrangling travel time was a challenge: in year two of a worldwide health crisis that difficulty has doubled, at the very least.
According to Diane Lewis, their Seattle based family therapist the below are essential ways to ensure that a long-distance relationship thrives rather than withers:
- COMMITMENT. Remember your joint vision for your couple and say a 'couple' proclamation daily.
- COOPERATION. Work together as a team to manage the challenges and tasks you are facing.
- COMMUNICATION. Share your feelings and appreciation regularly with each other.
- COMMUNITY. Create and build on a community of support for each of you.
-CELEBRATE IMPORTANT OCCASIONS TOGETHER. Even if it's only something insignificant that makes the other person happy.
-APPRECIATE YOURSELF. YES, there are many pressures surrounding a couple separated by distance, apart from the obvious.set time aside for 'self-care'.
-HONESTY-Be honest about how you're feeling It's better to talk about the problem so that both of you can support and make a solution together. In a long-distance relationship, you have to be an open book for each other.
-GIFT ONE ANOTHER REGULARLY. Perhaps much more often than if the two of you were together.
-DO YOUR BEST TO AVOID ANGERING ONE ANOTHER.
-KEEP IT SEXY! Send videos to each other. Nude photos or messages. If you're comfortable with phone sex, by all means, indulge!
Lola Carmichael has a list of what she knows and is sure of: on that list are the ten items above. Her love for and commitment to Robin are un-assailable. The long federal holiday weekend affords Robin the chance for a surprise visit to his wife. His timing is near perfect:
their daughter Bailey began sleeping through the night about four days ago.
"You're MINE, LO'...only mine!" Robin Taylor grunts between thrusts.
Yes, baby...ummmyesyesyesyes!" groans Lola Carmichael. "GOD, I missed this dick! Yes!" Sweat glistened on both of their bodies.
The muscular FBI Special Agent began to kiss, lick, nip, and suck at her his wife's neck, collarbone; he pauses at her over-large breasts, hungry for the milk usually reserved for Bailey. Lola whines, clasping her husband's bald pate with both hands, her fingers scrabbling
along his skin as he switches from one to the other. His suckling lips leave large 'kiss stains' on her saucer-sized areola.
A sudden spike of pure pleasure knifed through the Superior Court judge minutes after Robin changes the angle of his thrusts so that his shaft scrubs the stalk o her clitoris: she screams, her mind unraveling and her vision going white: something very similar took over Robin's nervous
system as well...once they've caught their breath, Lola props her head in the palm of one hand, gazing at her husband with adoration he never tires of.
"Robbie..."
He smiles warmly if a bit tiredly. "I KNOW, Baby. Believe me, I know."
They kiss, and Lo shifted onto her side (her usual sleeping position) facing the opposite direction. Drifting off to sleep, she recalls more tenents of Dr. Lewis' therapeutic regimen:
DON'T BREAK UP.
FIX THE PROBLEM.
START THE ROMANCE AGAIN ROM 'SCRATCH'.
WORK ON ON WINNING EACH OTHER OVER AGAIN.
If you love one another and are best friends breaking up is not the answer.
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Fanfiction~EXPLICIT SEX ALERT~ Lola Carmichael and husband Robin Taylor negotiate the tricky landscape of long-distance romance (she's in Los Angeles; he's in D.C.)
