<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

He is an a 2 year program, I am going for a PhD... anywhere from 5-8 years. We live about 4 hours drive/bus/train apart now. We are super solid and had been living together over 3 years when we split for school. We see each other approximately every other weekend, although sometimes it is longer in between because of workloads. This semester, my schedule is awful with all my courses on Monday/Tuesday so I am forced to spend all weekend doing work even when I'm with him when all I want to do is be with him. 

There are no other existing problems in the relationship but being apart makes me so sad. I cry every time we part, I can't focus on my school work. We're a little under a year into this and looking at a little over a year before he graduates and will move back in with me. I am worried about how things will change when we move back in together after being apart and simultaneously freaking out about failing or doing really poorly in my program because of how distracted I am. 

To top it all off very close friends of ours just broke up after ~9 years, most of which was a LDR which makes me so nervous and have doubts and want to cling closer to him. I want some way to fix this but neither of us can reasonably take time off our programs right now. I'm worried that this is damaging both my career and my relationship while in theory it's supposed to be helping both. If I had to choose between career and relationship I would choose him but because there aren't any obvious problems it's like I don't even have a situation that's really forcing me to choose. I really just want a grand gesture thing I guess, like one of us drops out for the other, but neither of us really want either of us to do that, it doesn't make sense...
<bot>: Don't want to break up but can't seem to handle being in a LDR for another year, but we are stuck ~4 hours apart, what can I do?