How to break up sensitivley

Breaking up. Let's face it, there is no 'nice' way to do it. I know that. But there are more and less sensitive ways of doing it than others. My situation- I've been in a long distance relationship with an amazing guy for about six months, but now i've decided enough is enough. It is making me thoroughly miserable. We barely ever see each other, I cry all the time cos I miss him and I can't, no matter how hard I try, see it getting any better. I'm at university and am not enjoying that at all either, mainly because I miss my boyfriend all the time. He works back home all the time, and is feeling the strain too. So now, after thinking long and hard, i've decided its best for both of us if we end things now. How on earth do I do it? I'm not going to see him for at least another three weeks and can't string him along and pretend everything's ok for all that time, it isn't fair. But breaking up by text, or even phone, is the lowest of low. I don't think there's any way I can travel home any time soon- I have exams and can't afford to travel, as well as a job on the weekends. He's meant to be coming up here in three weeks or so, but I don't want him to travel here to get dumped. For one, that's a horrible thing to do to him and two, he'll have to pay for a £40 train ticket. I feel like such a disgusting person because he tells me every day how much he loves me and wants to see me. I feel those things too, but I can't ever be with him properly, and the time has come, for me, to let go. I'm one of those people who can't do long-distance, evidently :(

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