Idk how I feel about us.. should I break up?

My bf wants to go everywhere with me. I’m the kind of person who wants her own space and “me” time. I like the balance of hanging out with family (alone), by myself, with friends, and with my boyfriend. He’s just clingy and wants to go to any and every place I get invited by my family/friends- which btw, I mean girl friends. My friends don’t know him yet & I don’t want to go back and forth between them and him at a party so that he won’t feel lonely & I don’t just “isolate” from my friends group, i already don’t see them that often (personal reasons). Not only that, every time I do bring him along, I always have to pick him up and drop him off as he doesn’t have a car yet. Today on his work break, he asked if i was going to pop fireworks for 4th of July, I said yes. He said we were going to hangout & I said “actually, I think I’m gonna go celebrate with my family” (side note: he’s met my family but i just don’t like bringing guys around because I value quality family time & don’t want to be off on the side with him). He said “you don’t want to take me with you” & I said “no, sorry.” I feel bad but ugh, I just don’t want to bring anyone ): anytime I tell him my reasoning, he says he’s not going to bother me- blah blah blah, which only makes me feel worse that he feels like that. We’ve been together for about 8 months now. He doesn’t bring me around his friends either, they’ve only seen me but that’s because he thinks they’ll try to flirt or something. Idk what I should do 😒 I like him but I wish he weren’t as clingy- & yes, we’ve talked about this already. I even told him beforehand that I didn’t like clingy guys.