Consistency Beats Visits
Long-distance attachment security comes from small repeated rituals, not occasional grand gestures — the same logic that makes a scheduled card more than a ping.
Consistency Beats Visits
You can't drop by with coffee from three states away. You can send the same Tuesday check-in until it becomes proof: they remember, they show up.
Research on rituals and long-distance maintenance shows security builds through repetition and mutual recognition — not spectacle.
Grand visits are samples of one. Rituals are datasets.