So. Let me start this off by saying that I'm incredibly luck and the girl that I love, loves me. We're a bit of a fledgling relationship (hit two months!!). But now, she's suddenly halfway around the world for work and won't be back for a year or two.

As some background, we have been best friends for 2 years before and so we have a great foundation of trust and respect. We are each others' closest best friends and count of each other as a safe space and advisor for basically anything and everything. And now that we're dating everything is just crazy intensified. For the first time ever, I can imagine a great future with someone and for the first time ever I'm extremely dependent on someone. Which honestly is freaking me out a little. She's constantly on my mind and we've both been throwing our sleeping schedules a little out of whack to make sure we spend a lot of time together.

I want to make sure that we stay positive influences on each other because we're terrified of losing each other. But I am afraid that we can both so easily derail because we care too much? It's incredibly frustrating because I have stuff to do and I'll literally plan it around her schedule and if it looks like it'll be tight, I'll skip some of the things I really should be doing--which cuts heavily into my productivity because our timezone matchup sucks. I've been waiting for my emotions to cool down a little but my feelings only seem to be getting more intense. How do I tear myself away when I don't want to to get stuff done? Or remind myself of the long term good of doing things lol.

[Talthybius]

You should be enjoying this, not suffering through it. Even if you are far apart. You can enjoy all intense emotion, in a way, because they make you feel alive and feel human and feel like you are experience life at the fullest.

[healingme4me]

Just be honest. You already have a longstanding history of friendship before dating. Just tell her what you need to work on and she'll probably understand. There is the chance she's experiencing similar and the desire to devote all free time makes sense, albeit it does interfere with day to day tasks.

[RomanSunburn]

Been there, done that. It's all about willpower. Healing has some good advice: just talk to your girlfriend and be honest. Start scheduling your skype dates (or whatever you use) for a specific block of time, maybe an hour a day, and stick to it. If you want to put a different spin on things, stick to the schedule for her sake so you aren't being selfish with her time, time she should probably be using to investigate her new, albeit temporary, home. Good luck!