Communication

Okay so I’m the type of person who like consistent not constant communication. My boyfriend has known this from the beginning but has always been on and off with the way he texts. I’ve been super stressed out at work and my boyfriend has been busy at work too so we don’t have much time at home to talk because we both have full time jobs. So I like consistency in our texting through out the day, I’m not asking for novels or full blown conversations just a text here and there. Yesterday I was super stressed and emotional and he didn’t text me for hours, so in a respectful way I told him that it sucks when I’m at work stressed I don’t hear from him for hours and that I don’t always like texting first. And the message I received back was crazy. He told me that I’m smothering him and that since we live together and spend all our time together he doesn’t need to text me all day. And we went back and forth over texts but I was still at work and I told him we would finish the conversation later. When I got home basically our conversation was him telling me that he’s not going to text me all day because we communicate plenty and I don’t need to know everything single thing he’s doing when we’re apart. I said that he’s known from the first few months of dating that I’m a very touchy feely person and I like keeping in contact throughout the day and I said well do you want me to tell you everything that I do. And he said no not while I’m at work I don’t need to know everything and said that I need to stop being so attached to him and go out with my friends more. My thinking then was say less. But honestly I don’t want that type of relationship, he’s not listening to what I need and isn’t trying to compromise at all. This morning I’m super torn as to if I wanna stay and see if it will get better or if I should just leave now. Oh and all this happened one week before our year.