| I don't think you're being selfish, but I also don't think blaming your unhappiness all on him is fair. You need to speak to him and see if he can set aside a specific amount of time that you two can have complete quality time together, either daily/weekly/whatever. Everyone makes sacrifices in a relationship, but ignoring the relationship and putting all your energy into something else isn't acceptable in my opinion. You need to take some control of your own sanity as well and make some friends. Take a class, go for a walk - do ANYTHING you enjoy and try to find someone you have something in common with. making friends as an adult is so freakin' hard if it's outside of work/school. Do you have a job? Even getting some part-time work somewhere will inject you into the community and you're bound to meet some people that way. I have a friend that I'm in school with right now and he's putting a lot of his focus into school while his girlfriend who moved here with him but has no family or friends here and has finished her degree, is waiting for him to finish school. Every night he gets home, he has a ton of work to do and she gets angry at him because she hasn't seen him (or anyone for that matter) all day, wants to spend time with him, and doesn't understand why he seems to put his schoolwork first. I don't see their relationship lasting too much longer because her lack of a social life is starting to put a lot of stress on the relationship.
so, everyone needs some amount of space in a relationship, some more than others, but it's really important to spend some amount of quality time together. That's my two cents. |