This will be my 4th week in this new school semester. It still feels absolutely new to me because I am readjusting to being back, trying to get into the swing of a new schedule, and creating a new schedule based on that for my SO and I to keep in touch.
For a long time we both shrugged off the idea of collaborating times we can talk. That was a bad thing. A daily plan seems to work well in all areas of my life and so penciling in a 15min phone call on certain days at specific times is working. I don't think he likes things so rigid; he feels as though it's a loss of spontaneity. My schedule is so hectic that making sure that I put aside that time and he knows to expect to talk then makes communication possible.
It's working, so I hope he doesn't complain.