He always asks for space, but then trips out when I want it 😐 - Am I tripping?

My partner is the type of person of who needs space. He has bipolar so I know he processes things differently. It took me time and we’ve had a lot of arguments about it, but now I learned to be okay with it. I have started to understand it to the point where I try to take space too.

BUT my partner somehow doesn’t understand? And gets really worked up when I do it.

For example, tonight, I shut myself in the bathroom because we had gotten into a fight and he stormed off, so I went to take a hot shower by myself and wanted to relax. He kept opening the door so when I got out and it was opened, I shut it and locked it so I could go to the bathroom, dry off, get dressed, and then was going to talk to him. But as soon as I locked the door and sat down to pee, he unlocks it, opens it, and looks at me likes he’s CONFUSED saying “Why do you keep shutting it?” I wasn’t even mad I replied “I just wanted space for a second” and he goes “no. If you need space that bad then go to your parents because I don’t like that” 🤨🤨🤨

Another time I tried to lock myself somewhere to get space from him, he again, unlocked it, and when I refused to talk to him and give him attention right when he asked for it, he broke the lock on the door.

I have brought it up to him and he says he does then when he gets super worked up. But the part that really trips me up is he used to make me feel SOOOOO bad for not being able to give him space (not on purpose tho) and now HE reacts way worse than I EVER did. I feel like it’s such bullshit 🤬🤬🤬