Bf help

So my boyfriend is protective which sometimes gets in the way of me wanting to do stuff but I love him so much and I hate telling him he’s a bad controlling and he just likes to say he’s just protective. I also can’t tell if he’s just protective or controlling and toxic

He doesn’t like me having guys on Snapchat and I just offer to unadd them so that it doesn’t bother him bc he’s told me before he has trust issues and thinks I’m gonna get side hoes.

He also doesn’t like me doing stuff where we can’t talk for a couple days which makes sense but we talk all day every day normally and he doesn’t like me doing certain things and if he doesn’t like something I wanna do he’ll tell me and sort of guilt me into not doing it like when I try to say something about it he turns it on me saying he’s gonna stop caring about me and stuff like that.

I’ve told him multiple times that I don’t want or need side hoes because he’s everything to me and I don’t ever wanna ruin what we have but I feel like him being controlling will be what drives me away even if I still love him.

Please help I can’t tell if he’s toxic and I should leave him but I really don’t want to even if he is bc we’ve been together almost a year and he means the world to me and without him I dont think I’d make it far in life :(

Ps we are both young 15/16 if that helps

SMALL UPDATE

I said something to him about the whole thing and I’m trying to see if he’ll change his way of thinking or not which I realize I should just leave him but i can’t handle loosing someone who drew me out of a major depression

He answered and I never realized how horrible his dad was since he never talked about him but his dad would verbally abuse him and I bet his mom so That’s why he’s so over protective of me