Advice

(Posting anonymously due to having family and friends in this group)

I need advice. My partner, he’s got a great heart but I have 2 very big problems with him right now. 1. He’s extremely obnoxious and 2.runs his mouth constantly even about things he has no business knowing and is wrong about. Some examples: over exaggerated laughter when everyone else is done laughing, running his mouth at inappropriate times. And he doesn’t handle correction well especially from me. Etc. It’s honestly really embarrassing to me. I’ve had the conversation with him before and he doesn’t even know the definition of the word obnoxious. Some of this comes from his background, but it is pushing me and others around him away. I’m at a loss, because I love him, and if we could just get over this “hump” he can be such an enjoyable person to be around. I’m aggravated because even some of my family member close to me have experienced and expressed to me their feelings about it. (respectfully, of course.) I feel like some of it will come with him growing up some, but then I fear that maybe he won’t. A family member of mine made the comment that they aren’t sure that he will grow out of it. I don’t know how to address it because anytime I bring something like that up when I’ve had enough, his response is “IDK where this is coming from I haven’t even done anything.” It’s wearing me out. He’s not like this around his family, but around any of my family and friends he is. I don’t know how else to tell him other than flat out hurting his feelings which I have done before out of desperation for him to “man up” and quit his bull crap. His emotions are always in the drivers seat, and I’m just fed up. I need to know how to go about us solving this and how to get through to him. I don’t talk with my family about these things because I just think that can get messy really fast. When we end up talking about these things sometimes it ends in a fight and him leaving my home slamming the door and yelling on the way out to his car. Ladies, have any of you ever dealt with this? How do I approach this? Im not giving up on him, but Im out of ideas an techniques, and words. We are a younger couple. I’m sick of being humiliated and when I quietly correct him (nicely) he runs his mouth and makes a scene. Advice? His good far outweighs his bad, but NO one likes an obnoxious man. I will not be the partner that sits back and acts like it’s cute because it is NOT. Any advice welcome, please be kind while I’m navigating through this. Relationships are hard and I know that we could be having way bigger problems than this, but I’m at my wits end with this behavior. 💔