<human>: Can you provide a brief overview of the text?

**Here's what I know:**  
1: I love him  
2: I want to be with him  
3: This is not about wanting to leave or anything like that.  
  
**The story:**  
He's a great guy, he's considerate, funny, smart, and all those things. I love spending time with him, and we work great together... Except when he's depressed. It gets much, much worse during winter, and I haven't seen him in almost two weeks. He shuts himself in, and when he *does* venture outside, it's to go to work or attend to family issues. He lives with his sister, and they both take care of his niece, and that takes a *lot* of time. I've been there, I've seen it, I know this for a fact. The time he doesn't spend at work or with his niece is spent sleeping or gaming, he doesn't have energy for much else. Also, I live almost an hour away from him, and he can't leave his place and I have school to attend every morning, so it's... Difficult. I think that's part of the reason why he's depressed.   
  
Now we're in a rough spot, it seems. I miss him terribly, and he says he misses me. I might go to his place this weekend, if he doesn't work and if he isn't 'tired'. Our conversations consist of me talking normally, and him giving me single syllables and long silences.   
  
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I know this will pass. I know that when the snow melts, so does his depression. But it's hard, and I don't quite know what to do about it. If only he wanted to talk about his feelings!   
To make matters worse, I've started having dreams about other men. Sometimes they are men I know, sometimes they are faceless strangers, but in my dreams they give me affection and attention and I just feel like a horrible cheater every time I wake up...
<bot>: Boyfriend (25) is drifting into Depressed Territory, what can a girlfriend (24) do about it/handle the situation?