Lately me and my boyfriend haven’t been good as it was. The reason we haven’t been good is because I’ve been telling him he’s not putting any effort in and seen no change so I just stopped complaining about it. I haven’t seen him in a week and I seen him last night. Not even 10 minutes together, he says we have to have a serious talk and to put my phone down. I do, he tells me he thinks we should just be friends. I ask him why and if he’s serious and he responds that he doesn’t want to “keep aggravating me”. I tell him “okay” and go silent after that because it was unexpected.

Couple minutes later he tells me he was joking..but everything about the situation didn’t give “joking”. Who even jokes around like that? My theory is breaking up was his actual plan and based off my reaction, he pretended it was a joke. I’ve been in relationships where it feels like I’m forcing them to stay with me and I really don’t want to go through that again.