Putting family or your SO first? I think I'm struggling to balance family relationships and my boyfriend as well. Becoming an independent adult is hard.

Well, I didn't specify this, but we're long distance. When he comes to visit me in my town that's the only time we can meet each other's families. His family's pretty cool too, so a lot of times he takes me over to their house to hang out too (actually way more often than we go to my family's house). It's not like every date is "let's go to my parents house!" though lol. I think he's been feeling upset because it's like I live in the same town as these people and see them all the time, so it's been feeling bad to him whenever I choose to do something with them and invite him afterwards versus planning something with him in mind first.

I don't think I don't deserve to date anyone though just because I'm close with my family lol. That's a bit of a stretch. It's moreso like I've been trying to incorporate him into my family, when I think maybe he's wanting me to put him first and separately from them. It's something I'm working on, so I'm not necessarily completely a lost hope.

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