Those who don’t live with their partners, how often do you talk and see each other?
I’ve been with my boyfriend about two years, we’re both in our early 40s. We go through periods where we don’t talk on the phone or see each other for days on end because our work schedules are different. I don’t love it, I need more communication, and trying for more of this is wearing me down. We do send a few texts per day, but they’re mostly updates about our days and stuff.
Even when I’ve been in long-distance relationships, I’ve talked more to my partners even just through some text-versations.
I get that we can’t talk during work times, but there are also other times where he’s just distracted doing something else and misses my call and we don’t talk, then he’ll realize it at like 12:45am when I need to go to bed to work in the morning. Everyone does that once in awhile, but he does it even when we haven’t talked in days, yet he seems really happy with our relationship.
Anyway, I don’t need to go into more detail about us, but I’m curious about other people’s norms or needs.