text: if my girlfriend lives in in. and my mom won't let me talk to her on the phone what doi do?   if you have high speed internet you can use voice chat programs to talk to eachother. even dial-up internet connections can work, though it's worse sound quality and you sometimes have to use it as a walky-talkie. (1 person speaking at a time).  the names of a couple programs... google talk, skype, gizmo.  a cell phone with nationwide coverage the lowest minutes and unlimited night and weekend minutes works as well.  type messaging (e-mails & im's) through the internet.   if one of you has high-speed internet but the other does not you could use something like skype. which has an option to pay a few dollar per month (i think $3)and get a couple different virtual phone numbers in any area code you want. get a number local to the person with-out high speed internet.  that person calls the local number and it's forwarded to the computer with the internet connection for free.  you can also use skype to call-out to any normal phone number in the us for about 2 pennies a minute.  fission