Commuter Love...can it work?

According to recent statistics even more couples are engaged in long distance relationships

The most recent U.S. Census in 2006 showed that about 3.8 million Americans are in commuter marriages, a 30% increase since 2000. While many believe that technology can help lessen the distance faced by commuter couples face, their is no evidence that this is the case.

"...while innovations like e-mail, video chatting, instant messaging, Twitter and Second Life have increased the volume of Internet chatter, they haven't necessarily made long-distance relationships any more successful, Guldner says. Communication's quality, he says, has always meant more than its frequency.
"Information technology has definitely led people to believe that long-distance relationships will work more than in the past," says Guldner. "Whether that's true is the big question we're dealing with right now."

See the full Forbes article addressing the challenge of long distance love and technology here.