Preserving Your Memories
Ways to save your memories...
by Jennifer Good

An element of online relationships that can be missing in real life relationships is the ability to record almost all aspects of the relationship. If stored and saved, you have the makings of a wonderful keepsake to look on and cherish for years to come. Below are a few ideas for preserving the memories of your online relationship.

Cyber Scrapbook
If you know HTML you may want to create a virtual scrapbook. You can start by making a timeline of how you met and fell in love. Include significant events such as your first phone call, your first in person meeting, etc.

Love Journal
A love journal is the perfect solution for recording or keeping love poems, letters and written correspondence. Some online couples each start a journal to record their thoughts about each other. Then, after a month or so, they swap journals through the mail.

Photo Collages
When you're far away from your love, you can never get enough of their image. With this in mind, take a group of your favorite photos and make a photo collage out of it. For a big impression, take the collage your local photocopying center and have them enlarge it to poster size.

Memories Poster
Following the same idea as the photo collage, gather a few favorite pictures, love letters, poems, etc. On a large piece of poster (tag) board arrange the items artfully. When finished roll it up and send it to your partner in tube shaped box. You may also want to have the poster laminated for safekeeping.

Book of Love
Gather every piece of correspondence you and partner have maintained. Search through old instant message histories you may have. Dig through old e-mails. Find old love letters. Print everything out, and arrange in a chronological order. Then arrange the data to make your book of love. You could use the printed sheets as the actual pages of the book, or you can adhere them to a photo album or scrapbook.