Am I Being Used? 19F & 19M

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I (19F) have been with my boyfriend (19M) for two years and we live together. We are both graphic design majors in college and I am a year ahead of him. Recently, he’s been really stressed since starting college and his stress can get extreme. He threatens to drop out and unalive himself for being “stupid and useless.” So I started doing a few assignments to help him with his stress and catch up. It started small and infrequent. Now I’m doing at least 3 of his projects every week while doing my own. We both work, but he works 30 hours while I only worked 20 until recently. Because of his lack of motivation to do things, I am doing 90% of the cleaning and what he does, I practically force him to do. He waits until last minute to do any homework and comes to me with the same concept of being stressed and being tired from work, and it always ends up with me doing his homework for him. I’ve tried to bring this up but it upsets him. A lot of things upset him so he plays video games with friends. He also says that I don’t spend a lot of time with him because I’m always tired. Tonight he came home and I sat with him while he played games and talked to him about different things i could think of. He then reprimanded me for interrupting his gaming and then he started talking about his depression and how I never listen to him. I try my best to listen, I really do. Lately I wonder if I’m being used. I feel like he loves me, and I love him, but it’s hard to tell when he threatens to leave during every little argument. Advice is desperately wanted. Idk what to do.

TLDR: I am concerned that my boyfriend no longer likes me and is just using me for cleaning, doing his college homework, and I feel like I’m doing literally everything for him so he can play games. He scolded me to interrupting his gaming by talking to him when he was trying to concentrate. I understand his frustration but it really hurt my feelings. He’s really depressed but Im not sure if that’s valid for how he treats me sometimes.

Comments

  1. KelzMcBelz Avatar

    You named it. He’s using you, he doesn’t seem to like you very much, and he’s being manipulative as hell. Leave this man and enjoy your life 10000% more!

  2. Raunchynutz Avatar

    Honestly I don’t think he’s intentionally using you but ultimately he is. It sounds like he struggles with self confidence. He makes you do the work because he feels inadequate to do it himself. Your not doing him any favors by doing the work for him… as the classes get harder, he will have a harder and harder time keeping up with the work and need to rely on you more and more. Why would you believe in him if he dosent believe in himself? I’d break up with him.