My SO and I have been together for almost 3 years, but we have awful, awful, AWFUL communication issues. He can go hours and hours without talking to me. It drives me insane. I just want him to check in with me every now and then. We live 3 hours apart now because I moved, and the communication is just not there... If he just says "hey I'm going to the store, I'll talk to you later" or "hey I'm just letting you know that I'm going to play video games with my brother for a few hours" THAT WOULD BE GREAT. I have brought this up SO many times, and we have fought SO much. And he always has an excuse or he always says he'll be better, he'll fix it blahblahblah. But nothing changes! I'm so frustrated, he just doesn't understand. I just don't know why it's so hard for him to check in with me every so often. I know he's not cheating, so that's not even a possibility. I'm just so tired of checking my phone every 5 minutes for someone who messages me every 5 hours.