u/Healingly_

So. Long story short, my boyfriend has been dealing with general mental health issues and family issues for yea a lot time. The past year / year and a half its been extra hard and hes been needing extra time and space (weve been together for about 4 years soon). We text every single day and have never missed a day, he is reassuring most of the time when i need it but mostly our conversations are cut short and we dont actualy talk about much, which is okay with me im just happy we still have vontact throughout the day. But it has resulted in for like, the past year, that weve only called like once a month and recently its been even less then that which i find really hard. Its mostly due to him being really tired and exhuasted from school and other things but that results in him never having energy to spend with me. This is effecting me a lot and even when i try to stay strong and support him and be patient its just so hard. (Weve also never met irl but we where planning to this summer but thats also kinda been pushed aside because of his mental health problems.) He reasures me that he misses spending time with me but we never end up doing smth even if i ask him to just call for a bit. (We havnt called in about 2 months rn:(. I trust him wholeheartedly that theres noone else irl that i wouldnt know about or anything like that and i want to be supportive and patient for him but man is it hard when i feel like ive lost him already. And the uncertainty for the future and how much time and energy he will have, if he will ever get the energy back he used to have or if we will continue to spend this little time together. Its all just so hard to handle. I really love him and dont wanna throw 4 good years of relationship away just like that. I want to be there and patient untill things get better but gosh is it hard not knowing when that will happen. Please if anyone has advice, i need it badly. :(