LDR harder than expected

Alana

My boyfriend and I have been together over three months now and we're absolutely in love with each other, I feel so blessed to have met him. But this entire time we've been long distance. we've met in person several times for a weekend at a time bc we're both juniors in college and our schools are about 4-5 hours driving from each other. We skype as often as we can and at least call each day, in addition to texting. I knew this would be hard going into it, but goodness it really is hard. I'm not talking about like we have issues or anything, I mean that its hard being so far away from him. We're great at communicating, that's great but I find myself really often missing being close to him, like so bad that I actually cry sometimes. the other night I had an anxiety attack bc I was worried about how long we'd be able to keep this up. I love him and want to be with him more than anything and I intend to persevere until we graduate and we can be together. I guess what I wanted to say with this though is, does it ever get any easier to be so far apart? Or does the pain get worse the closer we become? How did/do you cope with being apart from your SO?