In the past he was a real playboy, but we've been together 10 months and are deeply in love. I moved away two months ago, and we've decided to keep seeing each other. You make it sound like an appliance. You have to be willing to be incredibly flexible and let go of the same expectations you may have had living in the same city. The relationship doesn't work, honey, you work.
Distance can be romantic.
You have phone sex, you get to visit, you write soppy letters. You may also find out that your boyfriend is an illiterate lout whose obsessive phone sex scenarios seem unsettlingly well-practised. In your case, it's not the distance that's setting off my first smoke alarm. It's your boyfriend George, from Shampoo . And the crazy things you can get up to in a new city when you're feeling lonely.