What’s with the “distance catch-up” fights?

It’s like seeing each other resets us and even lasts for a few days or weeks, but eventually, the time apart catches up to us. We always end up falling back into the same cycle of distance and arguments until the next time we're together. Though not all the time we’re like this, but since this year started. We’ve been together for three years. Is this normal? Why is this happening? And how could this possibly fixed?