Yesterday a minor misunderstanding with my boyfriend led to a mental meltdown and I couldn’t stop crying for like an hour.
I feel like it was exacerbated by the fact that my BF gets defensive when I get like this and uses it as a time to vent all his pent up frustrations with me, thinking it’s an argument when I wasn’t even mad at him and I was just unable to regulate my emotions and communicate productively. But that makes me even sadder when all I need is someone to show me love. I have a depression diagnosis and when I melt down and cry for help he seems to respond with coldness at best, defensiveness and anger at worst because he starts telling me what I do wrong since I’m usually crying in response to an interaction with him. I don’t know how to communicate anymore with him, he used to not be this way. We've been together almost 12 years.
My dad taught me the ultimate way of what it is to be a parent when I was 13. Dad was not one of those lovely dovey dads. He did not say I love you often, and he was not much for hugging. But his love was obvious in every breath he took, every...
Yesterday a minor misunderstanding with my boyfriend led to a mental meltdown and I couldn’t stop crying for like an hour. I feel like it was exacerbated by the fact that my BF gets defensive when I get like this and uses it as a time to vent all his pent up frustrations with me, thinking it’s an argument when I wasn’t even mad at him and I was just unable to regulate my emotions and communicate productively. But that makes me even sadder when all I need is someone to show me love. I have a depression diagnosis and when I melt down and cry for help he seems to respond with coldness at best, defensiveness and anger at worst because he starts telling me what I do wrong since I’m usually crying in response to an interaction with him. I don’t know how to communicate anymore with him, he used to not be this way. We've been together almost 12 years.