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To start I'd better say that my boyfriend and I have a great relationship, we really do. Lately though I'm not really feeling that valued by him during the time we spend apart. We live in separate cities that are about two hours apart, and we see each other most weekends, so the distance thing isn't really much of a problem. However because we do spend a lot of time away from each other we've always talked a lot over the phone, everyday, just one of the things that keeps us intimate.

Recently he's been calling me a lot less. He has a full-time job and I know its very tiring but we've always had at least a 20 minute phone call in the evening before one of us goes out or collapses into bed. I'm at uni so my days aren't as long as his and I appreciate this, but when I'm the one constantly doing the calling, just listening to that endless ringing, I can't help but feel like an idiot. Especially when all that happens when he does pick up the phone is a few minutes of grunted conversation while he's playing a videogame or something, normally ending with me going "I guess I'll just leave you to it" and hanging up. Honestly I feel like if it were left to him we'd only speak about twice a week, which really upsets me.

I know my boyfriend loves me, when we're together we still have all the passion and intimacy that I'm used to. I know that this is just because of a stressful job and a need to wind down at the end of the day, I get that. I have tried talking to him about this, suggesting that he should just ring me whenever is a good time to talk, even its just ten minutes before bed to say a quick goodnight or whatever, but he just acts like I'm being ridiculous. It's just getting to me a bit, I miss the guy who would chat to me about nothing, listen to stupid stories about my day and tell me similar ones about his. Any advice reddit? Or am I just getting upset about nothing?
<bot>: My boyfriend has stopped making an effort to talk to me when we're apart (which is a lot) and its bumming me out