As exciting as it is to hit it off & feel so compatible & happy so quickly, you (& everyone else too!) have to remember this is called "the honeymoon phase" for a reason. NOTHING to do with being married, it's just the newness, the excitement, the fun 2 ppl have BEFORE real life events kick in.
Its like summer vacation from school or even the giddy feeling about weekends or time off; its a great temporary feeling that can't really last. That's not to say that ppl can't be together for many yrs & still feel excitement, b/c they can! 16 yrs here
But the diff is how well you actually know each other.
Right now, you 2 know each other, but not that well. If you haven't seen each other sick, coughing & runny nose with a nightstand full of kleenex & cough syrups, or vomiting & having explosive diarrhea, gas & pooty noises included, if you haven't seen each other in the company of each one's friends & Family (& see wtf those ppl are like), how they feel about politics, religion, want kids or not, how to raise these kids, what sort of life you expect & are planning for and on & on...you don't REALLY know each other yet.
In the meantime, during the 'honeymoon phase' you just accept each other & enjoy what you've found. Its fun! Its sexy! Its easy b/c you're both filling in the rest of the story on each other; what you don't know about them yet (dirty socks & underwear left willy-nilly around the house or mindlessly picking their nose & wiping it on their pantleg while watching some tv show you hate or clipping their toenails on the bed & not caring where they fly to...) until you've spent real living together time, you just fill in the unknowns with happy dreamy personality traits. It's sort of what young girls do when they hang a poster of a band or movie star & dream about being his gf..she has no idea what a fuckface he is IRL but she has filled in a personality she likes & that makes loving that poster ok.
Right now, you 2 are in a sort of honeymoon phase, a Romeo & Juliette thing, due to the fact that the World is against you b/c you can't be together. Even if its due to distance, it's still feels like you 2 against the world, damnit. But b/c it is affecting your sleep schedule, which is far more important to our health than we realize, you are on the path to eventually resenting this set up & maybe even eventually resenting her.
You need to decide, if I'm wrong about how well you REALLY ACTUALLY know each other & you still feel a draw that if distance wasn't impeding you you'd be together,THEN you need to really think out how to get together. What are each of you willing to sacrifice? One has to move. Or I guess both could move to a new location, but idk about that. Make a plan to save money specifically for the move. Search work opportunities & where you could live, apartments, rental homes or wherever you both decide. Possible to live TEMPORARILY with one or others' family but that can RUIN the dreamy relationship FAST.
You BOTH have a LOT to think about & consider. Is it worth diving deeper? Is she the ONE & are you her ONE? Is this a girl you will be devaststed you gave up a year from now & thump your head on the wall, pissed at yourself that you let distance stop your happiness?! Or will you be pissed that you picked up & moved or that she moved close to or in with you? You might be happy as a fat kid with cake.
If you are in as deeply with her as you say, you should be able to bring up this stuff & really talk about what you both see in the future & what you both want out of life. You may find you both disagree on basic things or you find she is your soul mate. Get to it. Get into the deeper stuff, esp before you become so sleep deprived & resentful that you can't think straight.
Good Luck to you both
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EDIT~aww shit. Didn't see your most recent edit/update until I wrote this whole thing out! gah.
is it b/c of your apprenticeship? She won't move to you or you just decided against it all?