"And, if he didn't answer my calls at once, I would start worrying about accidents or other bad thoughts. Sometimes, I would even suspect he wasn't loyal."
Deng Lizhen, 31, from Shenzhen, Guangdong province, is coping a lot better.
Her husband, Liu Weiwei, 29, recently made a move to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, because he was offered a new job.
They only meet up on weekends, either in Shenzhen or Guangzhou, about an hour's train ride both ways.
On weekdays, they are both too busy working to see each other.
Deng is a senior sales executive with the online dating company Century Love and her husband is an executive in the medical industry.
During the week, they keep in touch by sending online messages and they telephone each other before bedtime.
"It is the first time we have been apart in the last 10 years," Deng says, adding that they met in 2003, and got married in 2010. Their child is 6 months old.
The first week after Liu went to Guangzhou, Deng caught a severe cold, and she had to take care of herself. It was really depressing, she says.
"But we have to do this because we need the money."
Living in Shenzhen and raising a child is expensive, and they have just bought an apartment. Her husband's new job comes with a fat paycheck, which helps, although he will have to stay in Guangzhou for the next three years.
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