<human>: I've been dating my boyfriend for almost a year now. I love him and trust him very much. He makes me so happy when I'm with him. 

Since August, I have started college 4 hours away from where we live. He stayed home to go to community college. We wanted to stay together and so far, long distance hasn't been too much of a problem. Of course we miss each other, but we haven't gone longer than 3 weeks without seeing each other in person. 

The issue I'm having is getting him to communicate with me. We've started to talk to each other less and less, which leads to growing apart and a breakup. I've been putting a lot of effort into the relationship to keep us together because I think he is a wonderful person that I would love to spend more time with. However, when I try to bring this problem up and start explaining how I feel to him, he either brushes it off or tells me it's too much for him to deal with right now. This happens every single time. I know he has a busy life, he is working full time as a mechanic, is a member of a military simulation team on Battlefield 4, has class, and games in other ways too. But I can't get him to communicate with me about issues we are having. 

My boyfriend is not an open person, and he barely tells me what's going on in his life, even when I'm right next to him for several days. I want to be able to develop a close relationship with him and feel like after a year, we should already be close and sharing everything together. 

How can I bring up communication problems to him? I want to talk about how we don't talk anymore, but his reasoning is always he's busy or I'm far away. How can I get him to talk to me more?

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<bot>: Long distance boyfriend is growing apart from me. I want it to work out, however whenever I bring up issues he ends up avoiding them. I want to be able to talk to him and be a bigger part of his life.