Slow moving relationship… pls help
I (19f) and my boyfriend 19m have been dating for 1.5 years. I have told him I loved him about a year ago and he didnt say it back. He still hasn’t said it. We are long distance so I was only home from school for about 4 weeks overall (3 different breaks) so he didn’t have a lot of opportunity to say it in person. Also when I said if he said he feels it he just can’t say it and he was worried I was only saying it because I was scared to do long distanc. He also said it took him a year and an half to say it to his ex but “i’m not saying you’ll have to wait that long” What makes this hard is at the beginning of the summer his mom passed suddenly which was obviously so hard for him so I feel bad being upset about this when it seems so small in compariso. I haven’t brought it up for like 9 months and I’m not going to because he has enough to deal with but i’m just wondering will he ever say it? I know i’m a bad person for thinking abt this when he’s grieving and I was really close to her aswell but I just wish I could tell him I loved him.