Download or read book Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships written by Laura Stafford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-distance relationships have become a popular area of study, although limited work has been published. In response to this state of scholarship, Laura Stafford summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types, relating them to theory.