Claude Monet Argenteuil painting

Claude Monet Argenteuil painting
Fabian Perez Valencia painting
It's a tough call, experts say, because e-mail can maintain relationships, revive them or doom them. But what is certain is electronic mail is changing the modern-day long-distance romance. E-mail has become the great facilitator for those far apart physically but only a heartbeat away emotionally, says Katherine Maguire, a University of Texas instructor and researcher who is writing her doctoral dissertation on how e-mail affects such relationships. "I hear repeatedly from couples, especially from military couples, that their relationships are forever changed with the advent of e-mail," she says from her Austin, Texas, laboratory. "It's letting that day-to-day talk back into their lives."Witness this couple: "Harland," a psychologist, and "Astrid," a photographer, both 26, were high school sweethearts who lived together in New York for two years before Harland moved to London. Now e-mail supplies the seemingly