Is it normal to feel very unappreciated??
My boyfriend and I have been together for 2 years now. I am 20 years old and he is 26. We have a beautiful 8 month old baby girl. I need help, I need answers. I need to know if it is normal to always be upset with my boyfriend but yet too scared to leave him? I don't find it fair what he is doing. Everything was perfect in the beginning. We would go out for dinner, movies, walks and such. He always insisted on grabbing the bill, but then there were times I would pick it up. Now we don't even leave the apartment on weekends. We never do anything together because he says he has no money and that every dollar counts towards his debt. He is a construction worker and makes very good money and I am currently on maternity leave and I make very little money. I make probably a quarter of what he makes in a month. He pays for rent and groceries which total up to a thousand dollars (maybe even just a little over). I take care of everything else as well as support my daughter. I pay the hydro, phone, cable and internet bill. My car insurance is $324 a month and that is not including my cell phone bill and gas and all of the other necessities that we require at home. Which I'm sure you all know that they aren't cheap. I'm also 'trying' to make payments on my Visa card. And not to mention I am the one that buys my daughter food, clothes, toys and diapers!! He has not bought her anything since the day she was born. Basically I support my daughter. He never offers to pay for anything. He claims he's got a debt of $10,000 that he has to pay but none of that money that is on his Visa was made because of me or his daughter. He just recently added another $2,000 to his Visa because he had to 'soup-up' his car for some car show. But yet we have never gone on a vacation, or even been to another city together! We can't move out of the apartment that we are living in because of his 'debts'! All he seems to care about is himself and his passion (which is obviously working on cars;custom body work, turbo, motors, etc). But he has to realize that he is not a teenager anymore and that he has more important responsibilities. He also still owes his ex girlfriend $800 because she was the one that payed for his car when they were together. So technically she's still a part of his life because they're always messaging each other on the computer. I'm starting to feel like I can do this all on my own and that I don't need him in my life. I do his laundry, clean up after him, have dinner ready for when he gets home, and make his lunch every night. I feel that I don't deserve this. One minute I'll be fine, and then grumpy and sour the next. All I have to do is think about everything and then I can't even stand looking at him, and everything he does or says irritates me. I love him more than anything but I don't know how much more of this I can take. Am I over reacting? Should I not be angry? I want honest answers, please help!