katahkitten
Sep 21, 2008, 07:22 AM
My boyfriend is great, he can be so sweet and loving. We have been living together for almost a year, and we want to spend the rest of our lives together. He is four years younger than me, and it definitely shows. He has a serious issue with immaturity and lack of responsibility. I have my own issues with being depressed and getting angry and "overreacting" as he calls it (I call it acting on my emotions). He has messed up my trust in him (not by cheating, but by Myspace flirting, compulsive lying, and hiding things from me), so I have newfound insecurity issues as well. I'm not the perfect girlfriend by any means, but he can be so hateful and condescending. When I used to get upset about things, he would be quick to comfort me and apologize for whatever he did, and try to make me happy again. Now that we are living together, he couldn't care less. He will ignore me and not make any attempt to fix the situation, because no matter what he did, it's never his fault and I am just over-emotional. He will go days without talking to me, he is happy to be online and play video games and watch TV (that's all he ever does, he's a pretty useless person compared to others, but I never tell him that). He will get arrogant, and insult me. If we are in public, he will talk as loud as he can in front of whoever, and say "OH, ARE YOU GOING TO BE IN A BAD MOOD NOW?" "UH OH WATCH OUT KATIE IS IN A BAD MOOD!" "YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE" If I ask him to not argue with me in front of others because it is embarrassing, he will say "DON'T TELL ME WHEN I CAN AND CANNOT ARGUE WITH YOU, DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO" etc etc etc. Just talking to me like a he is child, in the most pompous and snide tone of voice you can imagine. He has a total inability to handle situations maturely, and treats me very disrespectfully. But of course when I try to talk to him about it, it's never his fault. If I get emotional, if it is warranted or not, he needs to work on his reaction and his effectiveness in handling it. Because his outbursts make things that much worse, and lead to long lasting and draining fights, when otherwise it all would have blown over. Then he expects me to just forget how hateful and rude he is to me. Other than all this, we are doing good, but there is this serious hate brewing inside of me that increases with every remark of his. What do I do?