me and my boyfriend have been together for a little over a year. he is 22 and i am 18. we both work full-time jobs and usually see each other for a few hours almost every day. most of my friends have boyfriends with whom they live with, or are permanently attached to their hip. so that leaves me with nothing to do on the weekdays.. so naturally, i expect to hang out with my boyfriend when he gets off work, which is normally a couple hours after i get off. but sometimes he gets mad and says he needs space, or wants to just have alone-time sometimes.. and that upsets me. sometimes during the weekends we don't hang out a lot just because we have different night-time ventures.
i know that i'm extremely clingy.. and i just don't know how to chill out. sometimes i'll do really good and go a couple of days without seeing him and just hang out with friends.. but other times i totally flip out when he says he wants to go over his mom's house or go up to work for a little while. he usually gives me an estimated time he'll be back (not because i ask.. just making conversation), but he almost always takes WAY longer and that pisses me off, too. it's so stressful that i get mad and upset over stuff like that, but i just can't help it. like i said, sometimes i'll do really good about those issues but it's not consistent. i don't have a lot of hobbies that i can do, especially in the winter. i'm not the type that likes to be by themselves. i really need help because i just want to be with my boyfriend. but if i continue to act this way i'm going to drive him away. i'm sure our age difference and maturity levels have much to do with the problem. but it seems like a lot of girls that i know, even ones that are much older, have similar problems to mine. he thinks i need to see a doctor or that we should both get counseling of some sort.. but i'm a bit hesitant about that.
