The interactions and collisions of time delayed solitons in optical waveguides with orthogonally polarized modes are studied. Direct numerical simulations of the coherently coupled nonlinear Schr¨odinger equations are performed,and neither the high birefringence nor the low birefringence approximations are invoked. Trapping of solitary pulses occurs when the birefringence parameter is small or the four-wave mixing parameter is large. The distance before the first collision depends strongly on the initial separation of the two solitary pulses. Variational techniques are employed to calculate this distance, and results agree with those from the full simulations very well. The interactions and collisions of time delayed solitons in optical waveguides with orthogonally polarized modes are studied. Direct numerical simulations of the coherently coupled nonlinear Schröodinger equations are, and neither the high birefringence nor the low birefringence approximations were invoked. Trapping of solitary pulses occurs when the birefringence parameter is small or the four-wave mixing parameter is large. The distance before the first collision depends strongly on the initial separation of the two solitary pulses. Variational techniques are employed to calculate this distance, and results agree with those from the full simulations very well.