Hi all. First time poster here so sorry in advance if this isn’t the most legible post! I (F22) began “dating” my boyfriend (M24) a little over a year ago. We met via a dating app and immediately became intimate without doing much to really feel each other out when we jumped into things. This is a pretty atypical approach for me as ,up until this point, I only ever started platonically with my partners and then would become romantic after some time. But, when I met him, I was less than a month fresh out of a 2 year-long relationship and sought hookups on apps to fill the void.
After what I thought would be a one-night stand, we continued seeing each other. If I’m remembering right, by the 6th time we saw each other, he was already implying that he would be happy to start a relationship with me. I still didn’t really know what I wanted in that moment so I just told him that maybe we could eventually. Several months go by and he meets my mom while she’s visiting me (I am an out of state student so my family is hundreds of miles out) and he called me on his way back home from meeting us. During this call, he started to say “I love you” and then cut himself off, to which I told him I love you and he restated it. I guess that is the technical point that we started dating lol, though he was already referring to me as his “girlfriend” a bit before.
Anywho, back to my grievance, throughout this relationship, I have noticed he does not seem very interested in asking me questions upfront and I am left to explain things that I feel should be evident by now. As the text alludes, I am type 1 diabetic and with that, I have to have an insulin pump hooked up to me literally all the time. As he is often around me, he has seen me having to input numbers and consistently check my blood sugar. And his lack of understanding is definitely not for a lack of trying to explain my condition to him several times. My major is in dietetics so my own condition and the things that impact me are a huge interest for me extending beyond basic regard for my own health. It’s become an ever growing concern for me that he still does not understand the fundamentals of the condition that impacts my everyday life and doesn’t seem to see much of a problem with that fact. And I am beginning to get tired of repeating the same things to him when they never really seem to stick and he only seems to show a passive interest in learning. There have definitely been other pretty big issues between us regarding communication, but this is the flavor of the day.
Thanks for the vent sesh ladies🤧