My boyfriend (27M) and I (27F) lived 2 to 3 hours away from each other so we only meet once a week. I work on night shifts and he works on dayshift so we usually only have an hour or two to talk on the phone everyday (except for when I work from home when can talk while I'm working).

2 weeks ago, he talked about struggling to find time to workout because of work. To give him more time, I told him it's okay if he'll just give me 15 to 30 minutes of his undivided time every morning before his work and every night before my work. It helped him have more time, but frankly speaking, he just spent those extra time playing nintendo switch. I called him out about it as a joke because meh it's his time anyways, he can do whatever he wants with it.

The problem though is he forgets about what we talked about most of the time. Today was his rest day, but they had family events so we couldn't really spend much time together. I would message him from time to time to ask how he's doing, but he would just leave me on read and not respond. At first, it was okay until it was already 9 pm that I expressed that I didn't like how he's ignoring me and that he can just tell me he's busy and can't respond. He responded saying sorry, then I waited until an hour to ask if he's still busy and if it's okay to have the 30 minute call before my work.

He did call, but then during the call, I could hear him trying to join his brother to play smash bros on switch. He told me to just continue talking and that he's listening, however I had to repeat myself over and over again 'because he was so distracted with the game until I asked to just end the call.

I texted how I felt disappointed when the call ended and he called an hour after when he was already feeling sleepy to say sorry because he forgot about what we talked about. At this point, I was already so annoyed because this isn't the first time he's forgotten about what we talked about and I would always feel unseen and neglected. And it felt disrespectful because I always had to remind him that we already talked about how we can resolve/address specific problems and he would always say sorry because he forgot.

Now, I'm so confused because I feel like my patience is wearing thin, but I'm not sure if it's too much to breakup over this.

Edit: I forgot to mention, what triggered me more was when he called the last time to say sorry, he fell asleep while I was still talking.


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