My girlfriend takes up all my free time?

[Anonymous]

So I've got a girlfriend but as we live about an hour away from each other then we usually just meet up on the weekends.

During the week however we just do Skype video calls but on many evenings she keeps them going so long that I have time for nothing else.
The thing is that I work full time and my hours can be rather long. In addition to that I also train heavily for a sport so that takes a few more evenings away. This leaves me with very little spare time during the week. She however is a student with a part time job so has a lot of spare time on hand.

However on so many evenings once she starts talking to me, she won't stop until its time for me to go to sleep. Although I love talking to her, I feel that sometimes it just goes on for too long and I'm left with little to no time to do anything else like watch TV/movies, read books/news or whatever. Its beginning to get a bit annoying how one sided this is making my life because I want more.

Obviously telling her like this will get her quite upset, understandably so. I really like her but I also want to have other things in my life too but right now she seems to be cannibalizing all my time.

Does anyone have any tips on how to get more of my time back to do other things but without necessarily upsetting her?

[Jbgurl20]

Hahaha I am so like your girlfriend hahaha. I love talking and skyping with my boyfriend so much and I used to text him all the time, like ALL THE TIME. Well he confronted me about it, he said that my life should not just revolve around him and that talking to each other all the time isn't healthy cuz there are other things that we should do. Of course I was upset at first but he was right so I accepted it. I still love skyping and texting with him but I don't do it as much as I did before, I know I am very annoying at times hahaha but I am not as annoying as before. But this is me, I can't change it. Talking to him makes me happy. I can talk to him forevermore we can.

[Anonymous]

I think you need to be just straight up honest with her. Let her know you want time to do other things that are valuable to you. Just reassure her she has nothing to worry about.