So my BF and I have been together over 3 years, I’m 21 and he is 22. He’s pushed me to achieve my goals and get my education. He’s very supportive and understanding of me in general. He sweet to me and kind. He’s genuinely a great guy.

Throughout our relationship, we’ve worked hard on our communication. He’s actually the one who pushes me to communicate with him, as it is not my strong suit. Anyway, I’ve been getting much better at coming to him when something bothers me.

So he’s very touchy. He loves to grab my ass, tits, vagina, whatever he can get his hands on. Now I don’t mind being touched like this every once in a while, but he does it constantly when we’re together even if we’re in public which he know I’m not comfortable with and when I tell him to stop he persists. I’ve tried multiple time over the years to ask him to stop and he always has this huge reaction. He’ll get extremely angry at himself and apologize and seem sincere. He’ll tell me he’ll try harder to be respectful.

So I’m in law school, it’s my first semester and I work two part time jobs. We just went two weeks without seeing each other and Friday night we went out to eat. Well he went right back to his ways and wouldn’t stop touching me. I was constantly telling him to stop but he just didn’t. I feel so disrespected when he acts that way towards me, I feel like he’s just with me for the physical aspect because that’s all he seems to do is touch me inappropriately even when I don’t want to be touched. I’ve told him so many time how it makes me feel and when we’re talking it seems like he understands and is apologetic, yet here we are. I realized I actually felt relieved not seeing him during those two weeks because I never felt unwanted touching on my body during that time.

I just really don’t know what to do or what to say or what to think anymore. I know if I bring it up it’ll just be the same routine of apologizing and then back to the same thing. I don’t want to leave him. I love him and I want a future with him. He treats me like a princess is every other way. I’m just tired of constantly feeling disrespected and like I don’t get a say over my own body.

Please give me some advice.