Have a long distance partner? How do you survive?

My sister is doing this right now with her boyfriend, but she's only temporarily studying abroad in Sweden, and her boyfriend is back in the United States. They communicate via Skype all the time, talk on the phone (through Skype as well), IM back and forth over AIM, and he will occasionally send her a care package or a letter/card. It's been hard, from what I hear, but they're surviving, I think, on the fact that she is returning and things will go back to normal. With your case, it must be frustrating. At least you get to see him once a week? So he can't be TOO far away. When does school end? Do you both plan to live together or at least near each other? I feel like human contact is an important part of a relationship of any kind. I encuorage you to keep doing what you're doing, and hopefully school will end soon and you both can re-unite and act like a normal couple!