Me and my boyfriend have been together for about 1 month now and everything is great, except that he is very clingy. I love spending time with him and having sleepovers when we’re both free from work (a few times a week) but recently he spent almost two weeks at my house and he always wants to spend every day together. I told him that I would like some alone days and that it would make us cherish our time together more if we didn’t see each other every single day, especially this early in our relationship. Also, we should both spend more time with friends and family which we haven’t done much during our time together. He told me that when you’re in love you want to be with that person every single day, but I can’t say that i’m in love with him yet. I would like to move in with him some time in the future, but for now I want us to move slowly forward.

Another thing is that he gets mad when I don’t reply directly, even when i’m at work. Sometimes he was grumpy for no reason when I got back home after work because we hadn’t spent much time together. And the day I left for vacation he was mad that I would rather be sleeping than being awake for him (I was leaving for the airport in the middle of the night and had also been working that day). He always asks if i’ve been cheating when I haven’t been responding to him.

It’s exhausting because he makes me feel like I don’t like him enough or that i’m a bad girlfriend just because I want some me-time. It’s exhausting to always be asked if i’m cheating just because I don’t respond directly. I feel like he doesn’t trust me and that it might ruing our relationship if he doesn’t change. I don’t know what to do or how to tell him