Am I too needy?

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Okay guys sorry in advance for the long post. I had my grad party today at my aunts house and I am so blessed to have family and friends who wanted to come and give me gifts/eat and hang out with me. My boyfriend came at 2:30 (the party started at 1:00, but it’s really show up whenever you want). He chose to work today (he’s in real estate) and said he’d be there around 2. The problem is that he’s always working...legit ALWAYS. He’s always late to things because he schedules things that overlap our things we do. Like okay, I would get if we lived together but I get to see him maybe once a week and that day is OUR DAY no one else’s. But he makes appointments for before/after we hang out and then they overlap into our time. It makes me feel super needy because I feel like I’m not his priority and I just want that attention. I feel like work is always coming before me, and then that made me think, am I supposed to come before work? I don’t know but then to make things worse, his family didn’t come to my graduation party and he didn’t get me anything. I KNOW that sounds shitty, but let me explain. We’ve been dating for over 7 months now (but we’ve known each other for way longer) and I invited his family and I texted him this morning and told them they could come. When he was getting ready to leave my party I asked him why his family didn’t come/what they were doing and he said they just didn’t feel like coming and they weren’t doing anything, just sitting at home. It just kind of hurt me because I wanted them there to meet my family and introduce them to everyone because I really like them and my parents have been wanting to meet them, so I thought it’d be the perfect time. And then (this is the part that sounds bad) my bf didn’t get me anything. Nothing. Like okay I’m not asking you to show up with a giant gift wrapped in a bow with money everywhere, but a simple card could’ve been nice. (I’m super big on little heartfelt gifts). Just a card that says something like “congrats I love you” or something. Like is that too much to ask? It just hurts because he doesn’t do anything thoughtful/romantic for me. Like I felt kind of disappointed because he just showed up (late) and ate some food and left. I think he might’ve said congratulations or something, but I just feel like I wanted something more than that. Am I wrong to feel this way? It just feels like I’m not his priority and like he doesn’t care about me like I care about him. Advice/thoughts?

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