Fucking tired of my depressed boyfriend

Anytime! It's your life, and the situation is clearly affecting you. Everyone deserves to have a "partner" someone who gets joy out of making the other person happy. Your situation sounds pretty one sided. It's like that saying about leading a horse to water. There's only so much you can do to help someone else, but you can't do it for them. Relationships are a partnership and should be based on mutualism. My best advice would be to sit down and write out how you feel make some lists and analyze the benefits/negatives of your relationship, and come up with some options. Do this over the course of a couple weeks, so you're not just caught up in your feelings and then when you're sure you've looked at all of the aspects make your decision. My personal experience, it took someone leaving me to realize how fucked up and self-centered I was. Change is painful, but it drove me to try and get my shit together. Looking back, I'm ashamed of who I was. I wasn't nearly as affectionate or caring as I should have been, and now those are the things that bring a lot of joy. For real though your story struck close to home, I imagine my significant other felt the same way as you do. Hang in there, and just remember we all suffer in our own way. You don't have to resent him, he probably has no idea what he's doing to you. Things usually come full circle and some day he'll be put in a situation where he realizes how he made you feel. Just like I am now.

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