I need some strength from my fellow Eve ladies

I'm in a relationship which has been rather stressful this week on my end because I decided on no sex for the first week of my birth control and he agreed. He didn't like it but he understood. However I feel like he's been less talkative/interactive with me the past few days and when he does talk to me it's mostly about how ridiculous work has been this week (he's a cop) and how rough works been on him. Trust me, I get it. I'm a very understanding/reasonable girlfriend but I feel like I'm being put on the back burner this week and it's bothering me. I haven't had a chance to fully talk to him about the way that I feel because text messaging is not a good platform to have this discussion. I've just been supportive and sending good vibes because I don't want to add to his stress resulting in a nasty argument and ultimately no point would be made it would just be anger. So I think about us and how good he's been to me and all the fun things we've done when we weren't having sex and even after we started (we didn't start having sex until 4 months into our relationship) and it soothes me but I'm dying to talk this out and set things straight. Tell me ladies who are in a relationship, especially if it's with someone with a demanding career, this is the tough part isn't? The one that people swears happens and makes remaining loyal and patient so hard? Or am I being played a fool? I just need answers outside of my head. Help!