This article privileges long-distance education and, in it, the question of the relationship, very much emphasized in regular education on the figures of the teacher and the student. It has the objective to argue that, in long-distance education, such relationship also exists and expands beyond that one between teacher and student, adding tutors, counselors, technical team, administrative team, and finally, all those that are involved in the process. It detaches some actions that can be developed for the narrowing of the relations, all of them (the actions) nourished by loyalty, commitment, confidence and mutual assistance.
loyalty; commitment; confidence; mutual assistance