<human>: Give me a shortened version of the text

F23 and M26, dated off and on for over a year due to work/school, tried LDR at one point. Each separation was a mutual decision. We are very emotionally invested in each other, we have that "click", and have discussed possible long-term futures together. But we've reached an apparent impasse in our relationship, and while there is obviously a lot of backstory and history like any relationship, right now it's boiling down to a specific issue:

Non-sexual physical affection is an absolute must for me to form an emotional bond. He is capable of giving it to me at a level that satisfies my need, but I can't reciprocate. He only likes being touched in that fashion in very certain, explicit situations, and the rest of the time finds it "distracting" and "needless". He has physically recoiled from my touch at times, and I don't have words for how painful that is for me. 

At the beginning of our relationship, I was the one who was too touchy and it pushed him away. Now it's reversed itself almost, and not being able to touch him is keeping me from re-forming the connection that I know I need to have if we are truly going to pursue a future together.
<bot>: (although, really, it's three paragraphs...) - My partner and I have different degrees of need in the case of physical affection, how can we work to reach a compromise on this?