I am 25f and he is 33m. We moved in together 2 years ago, because he is working on his PhD and his professor. Before hand I had lived with my dad and his girlfriend (me and her don’t get along), and my dog (90 pound pitbull) stayed with my mom, but she travels a lot so I pretty much stay with my dad a 1/3 of the year to take care of the dog. Luckily my job give me the flexibility to do this. In our relationship we go 50/50 with expenses.
I feel like every other week he will just start digging into me. Typical, I am just laying in bed reading a book and he lays down just starts starting complaining about me going about how I am not doing enough or being enough that I make his life hard.
Typical points that keep coming around is my lack of friends. I moved states and while I have been out maybe 4 times with girls on bumble BFF that’s about it. I haven’t actually made a good friend here. I have always been an introvert I am not bothered by it. However he says it is deeply affecting his life and makes him feel embarrassed that we can’t have parties/ get togethers because all his friends are males so I need some female friends to balance it out. This is kind of an argument that’s happens a lot. I just sit there and say I am sorry, and it’s hard for me because I go back to my families so often it’s hard for me to make a connection also I know we are moving in a year.
Another complaint is about me being careless for example not moving the laundry. It will beep and he will look at me and say go move the laundry and then I forget to move it he will kinda spiral and go on about the laundry and if I left a dish in the room and that he feels like he has to do everything
Another one is about my masters degree application. He is always getting on me about completing it and getting after me for not. Which makes me want to do it less, and I am annoyed by it because it feels like by him telling me to do my masters or some how takes away from the achievement. (He is kinda of a degree snob).
TL;DR
Boyfriend complains about my lack of social life,
How do I handle the criticism?