<human>: Met a girl online, we've been talking for about six months.  We live a few states apart, and we first met each other three months ago, and everything was great.  We have talked about a future together, and we have called each other bf/gf in the past.  

However, starting about a month ago, she hasn't been texting/calling/Skyping me as often as usual, or she'll say she's going to call me but doesn't.  

Yesterday, she told me she was going to call me in about an hour.  Well, five hours later, she still hadn't called me.  So I called her, and her phone was turned off.  I tried calling her again this morning--still no answer.  However, about an hour later, she sent me the following text message:  
"I'm sorry I didn't call you, I fell asleep. But you need to understand that a long distance relationship isn't like a normal relationship.  It's pretty much a 'when there's time for it' thing, or something like a friends with benefits.  You need to start thinking about this relationship like that so you don't get hurt."

Then she called me later in the day and we continued to talk as we always have in the past, including planning our next visit in a couple of months.  

At first I didn't think much of what she said, but now I'm confused.  How can an LDR be a FWB situation--what are the benefits when I only get to see her every six months or so?  Should I stop wasting time, money and effort on this relationship, if you can even call it that? I wonder if this is her way of wanting to end things?  (Note:  Just last week she was talking about how maybe down the road we will be living near each other or even together).

Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell
<bot>: Long distance girlfriend suggests that we are "like friends with benefits" due to the distance, and I'm confused about what this means for the future of our relationship.