“My lunch hour is usually a phone call with him before he goes to bed. “He goes and finishes his day and I start mine.

“I get up pretty early and we video chat for like an hour,” Heather said. They have an eight-hour time difference and plan their days around speaking with each other. “Our friendship was built on supporting each other through that.”Ī year later, the pair began a romantic relationship and married in Washington in December 2019. “We went through divorces together, the divorces were initiated before we were romantically involved just to make that clear,” Heather said. The couple met in 2012 while playing an online game, initially establishing a friendship. 'It's hard because there are times where you really want support and it's frustrating because if something happens on his side before I wake up or on my side after he goes to bed, we can't really talk to each other about it until the next day.” “We've always been long distance,” said Heather, a senior trainer for T-Mobile. Heather Perriam, 45, lives in Seattle, Washington, while her husband Steve, 52, lives in Paignton, England, 4,746 miles away. This couple makes their marriage work despite almost 5,000 miles separating them.