Top Tips for Long-Distance Couples

If you’re in a long-distance relationship (also known as an LDR), you know how difficult it can be to maintain intimacy across the miles. Fortunately for all of us, the technology in bluetooth vibrators and other sex toys can help bridge the gap and bring us all closer together.

For most of us, our intimate life is a huge part of the love and connection we share with our partners. If you want to have a long, healthy relationship that keeps both of you fulfilled, it’s important to find ways you can to keep the spark alive.

Starship offers a huge range of bluetooth-enabled and long-distance-friendly sex toys to choose from.  

Embracing Technology for Intimacy

Technology has made LDRs more accessible than ever before. From video chatting to making your lover your lock screen on your phone to unlimited texting, it can feel like your partner is right there with you even when they’re miles away.

Your sex life can be the same way! There are bluetooth toys which allow your partner to control the functions through an app on their phone anywhere they have a wifi connection. There are even some toys that synchronize with each other, meaning you and your lover can use your toys at the same time, and yours will react in real time based on what’s happening to your partner’s body.

Best Bluetooth Sex Toys for Long-Distance Couples

Get Synced Together

The best part about bluetooth sex toys is, as long as you both have an internet connection and smartphones, you and your lover can share intimate moments no matter how much distance is between you. 

If you’re interested in toys that sync together, we adore the Lovense brand. Lovense’s Max 2 Stroker is a masturbator that offers a 360-degree hug, and customizable vibration and pulsation modes. When you pair up the Max with your partner’s vibrator, it will react, squeezing and contracting in time with your partner’s real-life movements wherever they are.  

For the vulva owners out there, you’ll fall in love with the Nora rabbit from Lovense. It offers a wave-shaped shaft and rotating head crafted to caress your G-Spot. The vibrating arm is flexible, slightly curved, and accurately hits right on your clitoris. When synced to your lover’s stroker or vibrator, it’ll react to their movements in real-time. 

No matter which toy you’re using, make sure you pick up a good quality lubricant to make the experience even better! 

Use Heated Toys and Lubes for an Immersive Experience

Do you miss the heat of having your actual partner there when you’re masturbating? We have toys and enhancers for you!

Cal Exotics Jack Rabbit Signature Heated Triple Fantasy is one of our faves. The heart of this luxurious toy is its incredible heated shaft, which reaches its maximum temperature in just four minutes, inviting you to bask in the warmth of its embrace. This feature, combined with the three speeds of precision thrusting action, offers a powerful up-and-down motion to mimic the lover you’re missing so much. The sensation of heat adds a layer of realism and comfort, making each moment more immersive.

If you already have toys you love using, you can just add a bit of warming lube to them to mimic the heat you crave from your partner. 

How to Use Bluetooth Sex Toys Effectively

Setting up bluetooth-enabled toys is usually really simple. Your toys should come with an instruction manual, and most of them will also have information online about using them and their apps so you can start without a hitch.

Make sure you fully charge your toys before you use them for the first time. This is good for the life of the battery and it means it won’t give out on you halfway through your session.

To have a vibrant sex life across massive distances, you’ll need to find ways to create shared experiences and lasting memories. Plan virtual dates as regularly as you can. Hop on a video call and have your synced-up toys ready to go. 

You can tease one another, talk dirty and slowly strip down. Just because you’re far apart, it doesn’t mean foreplay goes out the window! You can even start foreplay long before your dates. Text your lover throughout the day and let them know you’re thinking about them, imagining how they’ll look and sound later once you’re on the call together. 

Additional Tips for Maintaining Intimacy

When you’re in a long-distance relationship, intention and effort is everything. Plan virtual dates that don’t revolve around sex as well. Buy the same bottle of wine (or soda or sparkling grape juice, whatever the two of you enjoy!), make the same meal, and watch a movie at the same time. You can either text one another throughout the film or hop on a video call and watch together. 

Most music streaming services offer ways to have listening sessions. Take turns listening to your favorite music together, sharing why you love the songs and what they mean to you.

If you’re into video games, try playing two player games together. No matter what interests you have, there are ways to experience it together. Think about the things you truly love and figure out how to share them with your partner. Technology offers so many ways for us to be close together even when we’re far apart.

Overcoming Common Challenges

With technology, there comes the risk of connectivity issues and glitches. Know this going in, and plan for a little time to figure out any hiccups that come your way. Try to be patient and know it’ll be worth it once the two of you are in perfect sync. It’s a good idea to play around with your toys before your date, so you can work out any kinks beforehand. 

Just like every other relationship, LDRs come with their own unique brand of emotional challenges. Communication will be the thing that makes or breaks your relationship. It’s important the two of you are friends as well as lovers. Be there to support one another emotionally. Know when you’re apart from each other, it might introduce insecurities that wouldn’t otherwise be there. Comfort your lover and reassure them they’re the person you want to be with.

Top Tips for Long-Distance Couples

Thanks to all of the technology we have available at our fingertips, LDRs can be just as fulfilling and manageable as any other relationship.. Make sure you communicate with each other. If you’re feeling neglected or insecure, address it before the feelings build up and boil over.

Make time for one another. Share intimate experiences as well as fun ones, silly ones, serious ones, and everything in between. Always remember the two of you are partners. When problems arise, it’s the two of you against the problem, not you two against each other. 

If you’re looking for the best online sex shop, Starship is here to support all of your relationship needs.