Abstract :
The fact nowadays more and more couples who undergo long distance marriage. Long distance marriage more and more occur due to various factors, one of the which is the educational factor that requires the couple split up in a
long time. Maintaining a marriage for a years for couples who undergo long distance marriage is not easy, given the high divorce rate that is due to the long distance marriage.
The purpose of this study was to determine how the maintenace in interpersonal communication couples who undergo long distance marriage and
what attitudes (maintenance behaviour) do not.
This study used qualitative methods, with techniques of collecting and analyzing the data using in-depth interviews and a descriptive analysis. From the analysis, it can
conclude that the three pairs of informants, maintenance behaviour most frequently performed and most prominet difference between pair 1 and pair 2 informant.
Maintenance behaviour is not perfomed by the three pairs of different informan each informant.
Key Word : Maintenance Relationship, Long Distance Marriage, Interpersonal Communication