That gives us around 6.7 million unmarried Americans in long-distance relationships.

以此，便有670万的未婚美国人在谈长途恋爱。

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Both Guldner and Stafford see greater conflict avoidance in long-distance relationships and a tendency to idealize a faraway partner.

高勒和斯塔福都认为异地恋爱可以回避更多矛盾，更趋向于把另一半理想化。

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This happens fairly frequently in long-distance relationships, especially in military ones, and it erodes a fundamental part of intimacy—people stop feeling like they're connected.

这种情况在异地恋中很常见，尤其是在军人之中，它侵蚀了亲密接触中的基础部分——人们开始感觉不到他们是心心相系的了。

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"Information technology has definitely led people to believe that long-distance relationships will work more than in the past, " says Guldner.

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But 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.

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The emigrants' technical and business skills, commercial relationships, and financial capital can all be harnessed to make long-distance economic contributions through foreign direct investment, venture funding, financial investments, and commercial and educational exchanges.

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