<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

So my boyfriend, we'll call him Alex, and I have been in a long distance (I'm in the UK, he's in the US) relationship for over a year and a half. He's a really great guy and we get along well, but we've always had an issue with communication. By that I mean that I don't think he talks to me enough. Ive always complained that he doesn't message me enough, some days he won't even talk to me, and others I know he wouldn't have it I hadn't messages him first. I've brought the issue up many times and he'll fix it for a few days but then it just goes back to normal. But we would still skype almost every day so it wasn't so bad. 

He got a seasonal job (he is now unemployed) and it's only become worse. He's gone days without messaging me or if he does it's usually one or two sentences. Plus it's almost next to impossible to skype because of the hours he works. If I'm lucky I get to skype with him once a week and he usually falls asleep within 30 minutes. I figured after he stopped working things would go back to normal but they haven't. They've stayed the same and again I've been clear that this bothers me and I've tried to make more of an effort but it feels like he's not. 

Fast forward to today where I waited 5 hours (and counting) for him to call him, messaged him many times, and nothing. I'm devastated. I thought maybe my birthday would be special enough for him to talk to me.  

Basically my question is what do I do? I'm beyond upset and I feel like he doesn't even care about me.
<bot>: Boyfriend barely talks to me and didn't skype me on my birthday. Not sure if I should move on or try to fix this?