Birth control almost ruined my relationship

I was on birth control since I was 17 and started having sex, stopped it at 22 because I wasn’t seeing anyone for a long time and I just wanted to be free from taking a pill everyday. I am now 24 and I have been with my boyfriend for a year. A few months into our relationship I went on the same pill again because I knew it worked well before. Prior to this our relationship was great and so was our sex life. When I went back on birth control everything changed. I was in the mood for sex maybe once a month and I wasn’t the same towards him, I didn’t want to cuddle, I didn want to kiss or hold his hand in public. Everytime he’d try to be all lovey towards me I’d push back, but I didn’t even realise I was doing all this. I knew our sex life was dying, I couldn’t get turned on and would get annoyed if he even tried to touch me but I thought I was just stressed out with work.

Until one day when he talked to me about it. It hurt hearing how he was feeling. He felt like I was seeing him more as a friend, that I wasn’t attracted to him anymore because he’s put some weight on and I was disgusted by him. That maybe someone else had my attention because I was cold towards him or I just didn’t love him anymore. He cried, a lot. We talked it out and put everything together, when our relationship changed. And I realised it might be my pill, so I decided to stop taking it. I’ve been off it for a month now and everything is back to normal, our sex life is grear again and I can’t get off him when we’re together. I’m so glad he talked to me about it, even though it was quite a few months after all this started happening. If he didn’t talk to me we would’ve probably drifted apart and eventually break up. Now I am afraid of even trying any other form of birth control because of the possible weight gain on some of them or irregular periods which I don’t want.

Now I believe when people say birth control can really fuck you up...