Maybe you like each other more because you don't get to see each other. I was like that with an ex- we lived in different cities (me in NY, him in Chicago), and when we saw each other (once a month or so), it was much better :)
I recently met a guy who moved here from NYC; he'd lived there all his life and didn't think he could live anywhere else, but now he says he could never go back. I still want to live there at some point.
Celebrate Life
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
- Randy Pausch