How to resolve communication issues in a long distance relationship?
Patient: its complicated, I live in Texas and my girlfriend lives in Kentucky. I recently flew in and we went on a cruise. Started okay but then I absolutely couldn t talk to her, couldn t come up with conversation or anything. She is now frustrated and done with me. Giving me one last chance to tell her why I couldn t talk to her and hold a conversation, but I was able to with random people on the cruise. We were together for 10 days. I have no good answer to tell her as this has never happened before and I understand how and why it happened. I am scheduled to see a therapist to figure out somehow why I wasn t able to. Any help or insight in this would be helpful. Thanks, Brandon Doctor: Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. I think the incident happened only once. It may not happen again. You must have been stressed, may be having some deep seated troubles which help you up from starting a conversation. I suggest you not to worry much. this will be settled next time and you can now settle it through long distance video calls.Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. K. V. Anand