Hey guys, so I brought my boyfriend around my dads family for the first time since we started dating (a year & 2ish months) and he’s immediately getting along with them. I started to get really jealous because it’s harder for me to get along with his family and in no way does he try to help me start up a conversation with them.

(After Christmas I was around his stepdads whole family and hadn’t met any of them and I hardly talked to any of them and he left me alone for at least an hour to play football with his cousins, and I didn’t know how to play so I didn’t want to get in their way or make them try to teach me)

I’m pretty shy and bad at small talk so when I don’t know what to say I end up on my phone in order to look less awkward. I’ve been getting really angry at him this weekend over my jealousy. The other night I was having awful period cramps due to my birth control needing to be replaced soon (nexplanon) and asked him to rub my back since I was also having back pains. He rubbed my back very light for maybe 20-30 seconds and then said he wanted to go talk to my cousin’s (Lexi) boyfriend, Carson, then goes out and plays ping pong and ps4 with him. Whenever he asks for his back to be scratched I do it until he says I can stop. I had a talk with him about it all yesterday morning and he said it’s my own fault I don’t talk to his family because I’m always on my phone, which I agree with partially but like I said I only go on my phone when I don’t know what to talk about.

I was talking to Carson (my cousins boyfriend) last night saying I was my boyfriend was more like you, after I saw him giving Lexi a shoulder rub because she was sore. I told my youngest cousin Sadie to go say something to him kind of as a joke but kind of serious, so she goes and tells him to be more like Carson. My Aunt Marti comes to the doorway behind Josh seconds later and was asked why. I told her about the back rub thing and went to go show her the pressure he used and my boyfriend tried to block me off and defend him self but I pushed him away pretty hard and showed her anyways. My boyfriend asked what my problem was and I told him “you.”

So first, I need to know if I’m overreacting about everything. I think everything’s kind of building up at once and that’s why I’m being so angry? (Like I was kind of mad because he was the banker in Monopoly yesterday)

But second, is it normal to be this angry on your period? I don’t remember ever being this angry while on my period but it could have something to do with my nexplanon needing to be replaced soon because I was rarely having my period when I was on it but I’m getting it again.

Sorry for such a long post I’m just trying to give details, please help me guys I don’t know how to handle this :(