2.5 years together and it's always the same pattern. Fall in love in the winter, get closer through the spring, have challenges and grow distant in the summer, and lose each other in the fall. Once because he dropped out of school and I barely got to see/talk to him, once because we broke up and I moved away. We're back together now, and it's been the same thing this year, so we'll see how things go as autumn approaches.