I think I was around at the time, at least when you said your communication was getting worse. It's however not exactly what happened in my case. I'm someone who really prefers a real life chat over a digital conversation, but it's not like that didn't happen. We used to see each other almost daily during the lunch breaks and a bit of chatting over Skype. It's just... I couldn't always be there, because I had to sleep as a normal person and am unable to be online on times such as 1AM. One of my friends (at the time at least) however was. (Because he was skipping college all the time.) Okay, there was nothing wrong with that, at least not at the time. I mean, I couldn't just forbid her that, right? Apparently they grew quite close to each other and later she said she didn't longer love me, for apparently quite some time already. Although I mentioned it she denied everything about her being together with my friend, even though they literally walked around with their arms around each other. It was a horrible experience... (since there's actually more involved, which ruined half of my life, but I'll spare you the details.)
All in all, I don't know if the same would have happened if I was able to chat more with her. Maybe it was just unavoidable. Who can tell?
US doesn't sound so great then. Here everything is okay, but since neither of you speaks Dutch, that might not be the best idea either. :P (Though almost everyone here speaks (heavily broken) English.) But that's far in the future, don't you plan to just meet up during Summer or so?
You wouldn't tell when you see the length of the message you posted there. (You seriously surprised me with this wall of text there. :P) I think I've overcome most of my shyness now here on PC, but I'm totally different offline. Conversations in real life with me are most often super awkward.
The Summer GT was my first time to have voice called with strangers as well, and I was super nervous about it. For me it was extra scary because English isn't my mother tongue and I thought I was going to be a total failure. Even though I mostly listened to what others had to say, it wasn't so bad in the end. Your voice modifier was super funny by the way when you set it to the most random effects. It gave us all a good laugh.
As I said, don't worry about it. It's fixed now, no? It could be that I appear scarier than I am anyway, since I've used some dark avatar/sigs regularly. But yeah, I'm just a weird guy who likes werewolves.