Who is wrong here?
My boyfriend and I have been together for 6 years. Any time I have to leave his house (even if it’s really late or I’ve been there for hours) or change plans on him when we were supposed to hang out (which is not frequent), he gets upset and acts like I’m leaving him forever. We see each other almost everyday. I have to wake up at 7am for work everyday so when I’m at his house on weekdays, I like to get to sleep by the latest 2am so I can get some sleep and then go home around 3:30am. I live at home with my parents about 8 minutes away from my boyfriends house and I like to get home before my dad gets home from work at 4am for many reasons, I don’t want him to know how late I was out although he doesn’t mind it (I’m 22 but I feel guilty about it for some reason), and I don’t want to have a conversation when I’m tired.
Anyway last night I told my boyfriend I wanted to go back to my house at 3:30am so I could get home before my dad. We planned on cuddling that night and he said he would go to bed with me at 2am but he has severe ADHD and always ends up having time management problems (he is medicated). He spent 6 hours that I was there putting up a few Christmas decorations (there were only like 3 to put up), playing his guitar and organizing. I fell asleep around 2am. At 3:30 I got up to go home right when he was getting ready to lay down with me.
He got very upset and very angry in his tone of voice and asked me to stay until 5am so we could cuddle. I told him no because of my dad and I need to get some sleep because at this point I’m only going to get 3 hours of sleep for work and I only got about an hour of sleep at his house because I kept waking up while he was doing stuff around his room. He then said that he can’t get anything done while I’m sleeping in his bed because he has to tiptoe around so he doesn’t wake me up. He didn’t seem to care about whether or not I got any sleep and was being very inconsiderate - not because he was doing stuff around his room but because he has unrealistic expectations about when I go home. All he cared about was cuddling and even though he had hours and hours to do it. There have been many times where lost sleep with him has caused me to almost fall asleep at the wheel.
His anger made me upset because he was making it my fault that we didn’t get around to cuddling when I was the one waiting for him all night. It seems like he lacks empathy for me needing sleep. He started throwing out all kind of accusations like I don’t like being at his house, I always leave early (3:30am is not early, I never notice things he does for me etc.) Here were the texts that followed when I got home. His initial texts were not the way he was treating me in person.
I would like to add he temporarily isn’t currently working so he doesn’t have to be up at a certain time.










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