Dear Miney10:

In your post before last you wrote: “I was never constantly communicating all these things to him so not like I was putting him down all the time”- what I understand from your sentence is that sometimes you communicated to him in the first year, before his changed behavior/ withdrawal, that he was not emotional enough and that he was inadequate as a boyfriend. It doesn’t take constant disapproval to cause a person to feel inadequate, especially for a person already inclined to feel that way, already feeling inadequate. It may take only once.

Reading your  last post, it may be that he was angry at you, staying in the relationship but angry, and his anger showed in passive-aggressive ways.

anita