Gift guide · Long distance
Gifts that shrink the distance
Long distance is mostly the ordinary days in between. These make those days feel shared.
Our picks
If you only look at three.
Couples Edition
Take turns drawing cards on the couch and answer the questions you both tend to skip on a normal busy weeknight.
Instax Mini 12 Instant Camera
Photos you can hold the same minute you take them. Bring it on every date for a year and you have the next anniversary gift already made.
Friendship Lamp
Touch your lamp and theirs glows across the country, a quiet good night when calls do not line up with time zones.
Date night in
Stay in, and make it count.
We're Not Really Strangers
Couples Edition
Take turns drawing cards on the couch and answer the questions you both tend to skip on a normal busy weeknight.
LEGO
Botanicals Wildflower Bouquet
Flowers that last, built side by side in an evening. Split the stems, then put the bouquet together at the end.
Repos Production
7 Wonders Duel
A two-player strategy game that plays in about 30 minutes. Easy to learn, very hard to stop playing.
Asmodee
Jaipur
A fast trading card game for two. Learn it in ten minutes, play three rounds before bed.
TableTopics
Couples Conversation Cards
Keep the box on the table and pull a card over dessert to hear stories you somehow never got around to asking.
TableTopics
Date Night Conversation Cards
Light, playful questions that turn an ordinary takeout night into a real conversation, one card each before the movie starts.
We're Not Really Strangers
The Better Dates Bundle
A bundle of decks to rotate through your date nights, so the question of what to talk about is already handled.
{THE AND}
Long-Term Couples Edition
Made for couples who think they know everything about each other, with prompts that surface the parts you rarely say out loud.
KITESSENSU
15-Piece Cocktail Shaker Set
Pick a recipe together, take turns shaking, and turn Friday night into a two-person cocktail bar in your own kitchen.
Stanley
Happy Hour Cocktail Shaker Set
A sturdy shaker with two cups that packs easily, so you can mix a round on the porch together.
Our Place
Tiny Cookware Duo
Small pans sized for two portions, made for cooking side by side on a weeknight and sharing straight from the stove.
Keep the memories
So the good days do not blur together.
Fujifilm
Instax Mini 12 Instant Camera
Photos you can hold the same minute you take them. Bring it on every date for a year and you have the next anniversary gift already made.
Fujifilm
Instax Mini Film, Twin Pack
Twenty shots. Pair it with the camera, or give it alone if they already own one and always run out.
Potter Style
Our Q&A a Day: 3-Year Journal for 2
One question a day, two answers per page, three years on the same page. Reading what you both wrote last year is the gift.
Kolo
Hudson 2UP Photo Album
Print your favorite photos from the year and fill the pages together, adding notes about where you were and what happened.
Kolo
Noci Photo Album
A compact cloth album sized for prints from one trip or season, easy to fill in one evening on the floor.
Kolo
Newport Scrapbook Photo Album
Lay out tickets, notes and prints from a trip you took together, and build the pages side by side one weekend.
Promptly Journals
Our Love Story Journal
Guided prompts for writing down how you met and what you remember, filled in together over a few quiet evenings.
Promptly Journals
Our Complete Love Story
A larger keepsake journal to record milestones as they happen, and to reread together every anniversary that follows.
RETO
PANO 35mm Film Camera
A simple film camera for trips and dinners out, with the fun of waiting for prints and looking through them together.
Kodak
Printomatic Instant Print Camera
Snap and print on the spot, then stick the little photos on the fridge or tuck them into each other's wallet.
Kodak
Smile Instant Print Camera
A pocket camera that prints small sticky-backed photos, good for date nights and building a wall of shared moments.
The best gifts get used on a Tuesday.
Long distance
For the ordinary days in between.
LuvLink
Friendship Lamp
Touch your lamp and theirs glows across the country, a quiet good night when calls do not line up with time zones.
Bond Touch
Bond Touch 4 Bracelet
Paired bracelets that send a light tap to each other's wrist, a small way to say I miss you.
Bond Touch
Bond Heart Necklace
A connected necklace that lights up and vibrates when your partner taps theirs, for couples living apart for a while.
LuvLink
Digital Photo Frame
Send photos from your phone straight to their frame, so the little moments of your day show up on their shelf.
Friendship Lamps
Classic Friendship Lamp
A pair of Wi-Fi lamps where one touch changes the color of the other, a simple ritual for couples apart.
Friendship Lamps
Memory Friendship Frame
A photo frame that doubles as a touch lamp, so a tap from far away lights up a picture of you two.
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Long Distance Love Toolkit
Questions designed for video calls, so a long-distance date has a plan beyond catching up on the week.
The best gift is still the words.
Put a note with it. Not sure how to say what you mean? Start there.
Questions
What do you get someone in a long-distance relationship?
Something that connects your ordinary days: a touch bracelet or friendship lamp for small signals, letters for hard moments, or a shared ritual. Gifts that help plan the next visit work well too.
Do touch bracelets and friendship lamps need an app or Wi-Fi?
Touch bracelets usually pair with a phone app and the lamps connect over Wi-Fi. Check the product page for the exact requirements before you buy.
How we pick: things two people use together, from brands we would buy from ourselves. Brands do not pay to be listed. Prices come from the brand's own store when we checked and can change; the price on the store when you buy applies. Product photos come from each brand's own website and belong to them. As an Amazon Associate, Unspoken earns from qualifying purchases.