I’ve been with my bf 6 years and 8 months. We’re living together. Everything was seemingly fine until a month ago, but now he is being distant.

For context .. He works out of town on weekends. The company pays for his food and hotel so it’s not too much of a strain. But he is also working on his masters for nurse practitioner. He only needs his board exam and he is done. Well due to covid, the job market for his profession significantly dwindled and he has been very upset with the situation.

So I know a lot of this has to do with him being frustrated, but he also mentioned that he is upset at several aspects of his life. And that he was upset at me. He won’t talk to me. When I pressed he told me he would talk to me in two months (which I’m assuming is after his boards)

Meanwhile I’m trying to give him his space, but when he doesn’t even care to answer a phone call from me or doesn’t even bother to let me know he will be home very late (maybe I’m insane but I feel it’s fair to let your partner know?) Does not want to kiss me, hug me, and can’t even say I love you, it’s really hard to wait for any sort of conversation because I feel the more time passes the more distant we grow. I want to give him the time he needs to have this conversation with me as maybe he feels he is not in the right mindset for it but it’s just so hard when your partner did a 180 in a week.

I also hate to think this because i have never doubted him (even when we were doing long distance) but sometimes I feel he may be cheating. He gets out of work at 1pm on Sundays but he hasn’t come back .. it’s 11:30.. I’m going crazy. 😩

Any thoughts?