Dear Anna,

I’ve been dating my boyfriend for about six months, and we moved in together pretty quickly — it’s been wonderful, and I feel really loved. The challenge is he’s about to relocate for work for most of the year, and I’m scared about how I’ll handle the distance. I have a weird pattern when people aren’t physically in my day-to-day life: I tend to “switch off” emotionally. It’s happened with old friends and even with family — I love them deeply, but once they’re far away, I stop feeling connected until we’re face-to-face again. It worries me because I don’t want that to happen with him. We’ve talked about making the relationship work long distance, and I truly want it to, but part of me already feels detached, like my brain is preparing to move on even though my heart doesn’t wan

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