2. Be honest and tell him that your day was a total drag without him.
“It will remind me that she needs me,” realizes a man in his late 20s. Your occasional whining about being lonely and missing him will make him want to be near you and to protect you. Still, if the whining becomes too frequent, you’ll start to sound like a high-maintenance woman who can’t function on her own, and that’s not the impression you wan to give your long-distance boyfriend.