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Long story, my boyfriend and I have been together 8 months. We don’t exist in perfect harmony at all, and we’ve had more than our fair share of problems that weren’t our fault, but caused by outside circumstances, (our families, my mental illness, etc.)
Anyways, this past month or so, my boyfriend has been showing signs of bipolar disorder. He’s been very up and down. One minute he thinks he’s going to be successful and the next he’s down in the dumps for days on end about how he’ll never get anywhere. If I ask him a question he gets agitated easily, and he’s been overusing weed and alcohol.
a week ago he went back to his hometown and asked me for some space because he hadn’t seen his friends in a year and just wanted to focus on them for a few days. I’m all for that, except with anxiety, that’s really difficult. So by Monday, he said that I annoyed him too much and that he was finally done, blocked me on most of social media and didn’t talk to me. I’ve been giving him space, and then two days later he sent me a song that said “he loves me but he needs to stop hurting me and let me move on”
i decided the other day to go out with my GAY friend my boyfriend has met many times before and I posted it on every social media account I had because I’m an extra person and I had to. And my boyfriend got angry simply because he was male, and blocked my remaining accounts.
im just very confused because right before he left to go home he was talking about our future together and the way we would start a family... how can someone lie about that? And how Can I fix this?

Okay so. This is my first serious relationship and I have anxiety so let me just say that I really don’t know what I’m doing sometimes.
But basically, my boyfriend last week asked for space, and because I’ve never had a long relationship space scares me. We weren’t supposed to talk for a week, but there were times when I did, and then when I was giving space, he spoke to me, which gave me the okay to initiate conversation.
He has depression, w/mood swings. On Sat. night/Sun. morning he was blacked out drunk, kept calling to say he loved me, that we’d work it out, etc.
Monday comes, says he loves me and wants a future with me. I was saying to him about how certain things can’t happen, when he has anxiety attacks he says things to me that aren’t okay, and he got mad, so I gave him space and BOOM. his ex says hi. And then he cut the cord with me. We’ve had issues with her before so my anxiety flared and I texted too much. And then last night he told me that he loves me but isn’t in love with me, and he said that this changed because I annoyed him in the last week. He said he’d give me a chance to calm down but that he didn’t promise anything. I know he likes her too, he told me and I’m thinking this is a big factor.
Last night I decided to take the high road and texted her “hey, I just wanna say I’m happy you’re in his life and if you have feelings for him tell him because if he has to be happy with someone it should be someone that understands, etc.” because no matter how jealous I am I’m truly glad. He’s missed her, and he never had closure and maybe that’s what he needs. She told me that she actually doesn’t have feelings for him and just wants to be his friend, etc. I haven’t told him yet.
i know the remedy for being clingy is just leaving him alone a while, but he asked me last night to go help him with something important for school, so how do I give him space moving forward and give him back feelings? And does he really not love me b/c I’m clingy or b/c of her?