Is there any other preposition that we can use after "stay in touch"+with, instead of with?
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We stay in touch "with" people: friends, family, old schoolmates/colleagues, each other, one another
We stay in touch "over" a medium of communication: the telephone, the Internet
We also stay in touch "through" people/places/things: a mutual friend, a disco, a book club (we could also use "via" or "by way of")
We could stay in touch "on" or "about" things of mutual concern or interest: a project we're working on (but better here would be "regarding")
We still stay in touch "after" a period of time: years, decades
Sample sentence: We stay in touch with each other over Skype and sometimes, when we don't have time, through our sister who we both see regularly. We like to stay in touch about how the other is doing and still stay in touch after forty-four years.
"with" is the preposition to be used in this case and I can't think of an alternative that wouldn't change the meaning of your sentence, like "over" for instance.
Then again, you can always omit the preposition and just say: "keep in touch".