Long distance is hard. Some people won't understand and that's okay. It's difficult to keep a healthy relationship just through the phone when your partner is literally across the world in another country. You're both trying your best to navigate communication with different time zones and schedules.
Give yourself grace and be patient towards- each other. The distance isn't forever and one day you'll look back on how much you both overcame together. Don't worry about other peoples opinions and perspective about your relationship.
You're doing the best you can to navigate through long distance and there's nothing about it that is easy. Unless you're in a long distance relationship or been in one before, you will never understand just the amount of pain, effort, and communication it takes. And I am really thankful that I got him in my life and I hope we are can navigate through this relationship and wish I hope is not just one side who work on our relationship and put on effort on this.