Hello. My girlfriend and I live in two completely different countries, and we have been dating for just over... 17 months. I have spent about 4 months living with her and her family and getting to know them and we see this being a marriage, but I am holding off asking her to marry me because of some decisions I have made. But I find that, when we are not around each other and it has to be a skype/email relationship, I get extremely lonely. Thinking if she is ok, caring about her, but sometimes its just so painful the loneliness. At the same time, having the loneliness and caring about her, she sometimes says I am suffocating her, which hurts me, but I feel lonely without. How can I still have this relationship, that WILL turn into a marriage, but until that, how do I deal with the loneliness and how healthy is it, or unhealthy to be worrying about her and spending days without her, and feel depressed and lonely?