My close friend recently got asked to be in a relationship with the guy she’s been talking to. At least a couple times a week she’s coming to me telling me how they’ve argued including when they were just talking. It’s been about 9 months since they’ve met. She’s been wanting to go to counselling because they literally had an argument yesterday because he would get angry over very minor things for example they argued because he felt like she wasn’t using his advice on reading reviews before applying for a job and he got angry and upset. But my friend said she was actually looking at the reviews but somehow he thought otherwise. He keeps getting angry over literally small things. She already used to go to counselling before they met but she just wants to go now and he’s stopping her from going saying he doesn’t want her to tell anyone else how she feels. But when she expresses how she feels it causes an argument and she comes back to me crying at least a couple times a week. Even when they were talking she told me how they went on a date one time and he told her the amount of drinks she has to drink because he doesn’t her to be too drunk. But I feel like she is a grown adult (she’s 22 and he’s 25), she knows how to handle her drinks, she doesn’t need someone telling her ‘you can only have 2 drinks’ like what? And he’s been pushing her to have kids when before they met she didn’t want kids until she’s 25 but because he’s 25 he doesn’t want to be ‘too old’ and have kids and they’re thinking of having kids this year or next year. He gives me controlling vibes. I know there’s not much I can do but I just want to know that I’m not overthinking this.
Is my friend’s boyfriend controlling?
