<human>: Condense the text into a few key points

My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost a year, and I really do love him a lot. He's funny and smart and we enjoy a lot of the same things. Everything was going really well until he lost his job about 5 months in. He's been kind of a haggard/grumpy mess ever since. He stopped being as affectionate and romantic. I wasn't getting cute texts or anything anymore, but I guess I understood why. I've put up with it and been as supportive as I can be because I know that losing his job must have felt awful. 

He found a job which he started in February. He stopped being as stressed, but hadn't started back up with the affection and romance that was lost. I brought it up to him and asked that he try to send me cute texts and things sometimes, because that is something I need from my SO, especially if we haven't been together for a year. We're also long-distance, so that's the only way I'm going to get it unless we see each other on weekends. He said that he thought my expectations were too high, but I convinced him to try to work on it. 

Well he's gotten kind of stressed again because of a test he is taking at work. Now, this test is over something I've studied before and I offer all the time to help him, but instead he drives to his parents' place (which is a few hours in the opposite direction of me) and gets his mom to help him. He's not even making smart decisions about fixing the stressful situations in his life. 

This weekend he went to his parents to study again (instead of coming here to a tournament he had paid and signed up for, and the party that follows, and ya know, seeing me). I got home from that tournament and he was playing video games (he showed up on my friends list on steam). I told him that that bothered me because he didn't come here so he could study, and that it hurt my feelings, and all he said was 'Sorry charlie.'

So basically reddit, I need to know if you think he's stopped caring about me and the relationship, or if I should try and wait this out.
<bot>: My boyfriend isn't acting like he cares that I'm upset and seems to not be working on our relationship. Should I dump him, or wait for him to get passed a stressful spot in his life?