Kevin doesn't like that I don't always say what's upsetting me // I feel like I'm not allowed to just feel upset without being interrogated about it // Kevin gets mad at me when I'm already upset, which only makes things worse // Sometimes I don't want to talk about things at a certain moment and just want him to wait
Kevin sometimes hides things/feelings from me because he thinks I'm going to get upset about it, even though he has no idea how I really feel about it
Kevin sometimes doesn't take me seriously
I have jealousy issues
I have low self esteem and sometimes have a hard time believing that I deserve him
Kevin doesn't know how to let little things go sometimes, so we end up arguing over tiny little things that don't matter
I have a hard time knowing what I should or shouldn't expect from Kevin; what part of a relationship is real and what is "movie magic"?
I often have to initiate intimacy, and I wish he would more often
I wish he would have more courage to stand up for himself and me
I wish he would put more effort into controlling his temper
Kevin gets extremely defensive when I try to talk to him about a problem... and so instead of working calmly to solve the problem, he instead attacks me and makes things worse
Sometimes when I ask Kevin to work on improving something so that we have less of these problems, he says he will, but doesn't always follow through with it and sometimes just plain forgets I ever talked to him about it
I feel like he doesn't appreciate or compliment me very much
I feel like I'm sometimes overcritical of him
I sometimes don't notice the small things he does for me
I sometimes put too much pressure on him to be perfect
I sometimes change my mind about things; what bothers me one day might not bother me later on, which confuses him about what to expect from me
Sometimes I really wish he would comfort me when I'm upset, but instead he just leaves me alone and we spend hours just not talking to each other
He and I both could stand to be more willing to say "I'm sorry"