CECP wrote:Advice please....
My boyfriend can manipulate me at times. I know he loves me very much. Ive told him what i feel hes doing, and hes sorry, but when i try to have "me time", he complains about being "sad" and "alone". I only have "me time" for like, 30 mins- 1 hour. Hes hurting me, and its not really fair. I just want time for myself. Hes the "self pity" manipulator....
Thank you so much.
Well my question is this - how much time do you guys spend together? Is it just a few hours a week? Do you live together?
If he sees you all the time and gives you no alone time, then he's just being whiny and really needs to get the heck over it.
If you only occasionally see each other and you don't want to hang out that whole time, then he may feel you guys aren't spending the time together wisely.
Either way, making himself out to be helpless and pitiful just to illicit sympathy and get a particular reaction from you isn't fair to you. Everyone has moments of feeling down or unhappy and wanting someone to do something about it, moments where they are in denial that they could do something about it themselves, but if he does this very often it's not a healthy thing for your relationship.