Scarlett, thank you. My l/M has been very distant lately, even for a LDR, and I have been wondering if our entire relationship was over. Your comments have given me hope that things will be okay again. My advantage is that I know some of the reasons he has pulled away-he's back in school after almost twenty years, his mom recently died, and her husband has been having some major health issues that Dog had to deal with. My disadvantages are that he wouldn't let me help or be with him through any of this, which made/makes me wonder how much he trusts me, and that, even though I was in the same state, just an hour and a half away instead of twenty hours, for almost two months, I only got to see him once in that time, and now I am back being twenty hours away, and I don't know when I can go back.
Best of luck to you, and thanks again for the hope.