My (21f) boyfriend (24m) keeps wanting to break up with me and going back on it. How do I get him to understand he needs to stop?
It’s been happening for a while now, we have been together 5 years and I’d say it started happening at last year.
He keeps threatening to break up with me during arguments and almost going through with it. Usually he does it over the phone but last time he came in person to do it so I really thought it was the last time. But we talked and after we were done I asked to stop at Dunkin because I use food to cope. He first picked up pizza for himself though and that’s when I realized he wasn’t breaking up with me because he can’t eat when he’s upset. We didn’t talk about the break up threat and just went back to my house. I don’t even want to talk about it anymore tbh.
It’s something that destroys me every time though. It’s one of the worst things that can happen in my life to me, he is the first person I have loved and there’s so much history and fun.
I try to tell him he needs to stop but he doesn’t. I’ve told him how it makes me feel. I know he thinks it’s real too and that’s why he does it but he needs to take a week and figure out if that’s what he truly wants, not do it in the middle of a heated moment. Because he’s never shown any negativity when we are good.
So how do I get him to understand he needs to stop? Is this just a lost cause on trying to get him to understand?